Constitution

Speaker of the Assembly: "Constitution does not allow elections to be held in autumn"

"How to hold the elections in the fall when the Constitution does not allow it? We would have to introduce another state of emergency, to extend it for another 90 days," Gojkovic told TV Pink.
She said that the end of the state of emergency had not yet been seen and that the last word on when it will be lifted would give the Health Crisis Staff.

Bosnia’s Constitutional Court to Rule on Movement Restrictions

The Constitutional Court's president, Zlatko Knezevic, told BIRN that the court is to make its ruling on April 22 on whether it is unconstitutional to bar under-18s and over-65s from leaving their homes as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bulgaria's President Approached the CC for the Changes in the State Property Act

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev referred to the Constitutional Court a request to declare separate provisions of the Law on Amendment and Supplement to the State Property Act (promulgated in State Gazette No. 44 / 4.06.2019) as non-constitutional and non-conforming to international treaties. This is reported by the presidential press centre.

Consultation at Cotroceni/USR's Barna says constitutional revision should include 'No convict in public offices' initiative

At the end of presidential consultation of Tuesday, national chairman of the Save Romania Union (USR) Dan Bara said the "No convict in public offices" initiative should be part of the revision of the Constitution, mentioning that President Iohannis agreed.

Citizenship initiative 'No Convicts in Public Office' mandatorily amends the Constitution (USR's Barna)

Chairman of Save Romania Union (USR) Dan Barna told on Thursday a press conference in Pitesti that the citizens' initiative 'No Convicts in Public Office' will necessarily lead to the amendment of the Constitution. "This citizens' initiative, supported by USR with all its energy, mandatorily amends the Constitution.

Central bank's Vasilescu: Laws appear without analysis of legitimacy, hence laws that breach laws

Laws appear without an analysis of legitimacy and we wind up with laws that breach laws, and the Constitutional Court declares them unconstitutional, National Bank of Romania (BNR) strategy consultant Adrian Vasilescu said on Wednesday in reference to the laws on credit agreements, leasing operations and financial relations in the banking area.

Warped tactics

Accidents are almost always the fault of the driver and not the vehicle.

The same can be said about the Constitution. Institutions cannot be blamed for the crisis, despite the systematic efforts by certain political parties to hold the flaws of Greece's post-1974 democracy accountable for the failures of the country's political system.

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