Macovei believes that if he still wants to be a lawyer, Ponta will have to sit the bar exam and go through all the preparatory procedures, as any other candidate.
According to Macovei, Ponta cannot give up the "PhD" title without losing the title of associate professor, without being disbarred from the legal profession and without returning the money earned through this intellectual theft, including from contracts with the state he had as lawyer.
"I am hereby requesting you to disbar from the Bucharest Bar Mr. Viorel Victor Ponta, noting that he no longer meets the legal conditions for exercising the lawyer profession, which he has gained" without examination ", as a holder of the " doctor of law " diploma," reads the request filed by Monica Macovei with the dean of the Bucharest Bar Ion Ilie-Iordăchescu.