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The Central Electoral Commission announces an open doors day and invites all citizens who wish to attend the regular Commission meeting today.

The occasion is the Global Election Day, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: Rule of law is observed in Romania, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila gave assurances in Brussels, at the plenary session of the European Committee of Regions.

Chairman of National Liberal Party (PNL) Ludovic Orban is critical of Minister of Interior Carmen Dan and Justice Minister Tudorel Toader's hearings in the European Parliament, saying that their statements have embarrassed Romania.

The Save Romania Union (USR) asked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to notify the Venice Commission in respect to the new emergency ordinances that the PSD-ALDE (Social Democratic Party - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats) Government is preparing in the justice field, USR informed in a release on Monday.

Chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Ludovic Orban believes that, in the context of the vote in the European Parliament regarding the rule of law mechanism, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) shows that it wants to maintain the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) and further fraud the EU funds, as well as block the accession to Schengen.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila deemed as "totally inappropriate" the speech of President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt held on Tuesday, in the context in which the head of the Romanian executive presented at the plenary session in Strasbourg the priorities of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The National Liberal Party (PNL, opposition, ed. n.) cannot reach a political consensus with the PSD and ALDE (major at rule Social Democrat Party and minor at rule Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, ed.

Bucharest, Jan 11 /Agerpres/ - Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Friday stated that the rule of law is not something to be negotiated.

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea said on Wednesday that the recommendations of the Venice Commission, except one, are comprised in the Romanian legislation, referring in this sense to the emergency ordinance adopted by the Dancila Government, but whose text reached the plenum of the Venice Commission too late.

The non-legislative resolution on the rule of law in Romania was passed on Tuesday by the European Parliament 473 -to- 151 votes and 40 abstentions, a text that affirms the MEPs' "deep concern" towards the judicial and criminal legislation's reform in Romania and "condemns the violent and disproportionate intervention of the police forces during the Bucharest protests" in August