Laura Codruţa Kövesi

Romania's government is set to nominate a new anti-graft chief prosecutor by the end of July, after the country's President announced early on Monday that he was dismissing anti-chief corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi following a ruling of the Constitutional Court.

Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar on Monday issued the order through which Anca Jurma has been delegated as chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).

Laura Codruta Kovesi said on Monday after President Klaus Iohannis signed a decree removing her from the office of chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) that at this point in time the political will is not for an independent justice, but for stymieing investigations.

Romania's President Klaus Iohannis bowed to government pressure and signed a decree on Monday, firing the country's chief anti-graft prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi.

She was axed after months of mounting political tensions between her, the President and the Social Democrat-led government .

President Klaus Iohannis signed on Monday a decree removing Laura Codruta Kovesi as chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA).

National Liberal Party (the Opposition's main party, PNL, ed. n.) leader Ludovic Orban on Thursday asserted that by the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR)'s reasoning regarding the removal from office of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) head, Laura Codruta Kovesi, the justice independence's constitutional principle is violated.

Anti-corruption prosecutors are voicing their concern that the prosecutors' independence status might be affected.

The reaction of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) comes in the context of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) concerning the obligation of Romania's President to issue an order removing from office the head of DNA.

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader mentioned on Thursday that there is no decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) which doesn't produce legal effects and isn't observed, a statement made in the context in which the CCR established that there is a conflict between powers regarding the denial to remove from office the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Dire

Chief prosecutor of the Directorate for Investigating of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Daniel Horodniceanu believes that by its latest ruling, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) actually placed the prosecutors not under the authority, but under the discretionary power of the minister of justice, who is either a politician or enjoys political support.

Considering the decision of Romania's Constitutional Court in the case of the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) head Laura Codruta Kovesi, the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis should proceed to revoking the chief-prosecutor from office, as requested by the Justice Minister, Tudorel Toader, on Wednesday said the Senate's President, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.