Antena 3 CNN Politics Prime Minister Ponta: The Constitution amendment can be an opportunity to reshape political, social and economic life

Prime Minister Ponta: The Constitution amendment can be an opportunity to reshape political, social and economic life

Prime Minister Ponta: The Constitution amendment can be an opportunity to reshape political, social and economic life
09 Dec 2014   •   18:18

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said that amending the Constitution, with the reduction of the number of MPs, can be an opportunity to reshape the political, social and economic life, the artificial multiplication of institutional political crisis over the past decade have brought  Romania in a deadlock.

In a message conveyed upon the  23rd  anniversary since  the endorsement  of the Romanian Constitution, the Prime Minister notes that it is important to look back, with objectivity, critical sense and responsibility, and states that constitutional change may be in the current political institutional framework  an opportunity for  institutional reshaping and restructuring of  the Romanian political, social and economic life.


According to Prime Minister Ponta, the artificial multiplication of political and institutional crises of the last decade has brought Romania into a political and institutional deadlock affecting the whole society and the institutional conflict degenerated  at Executive level, involving the entire  society, the  tensions between different branches of government and public authorities resulting in the disruption of separation and balance of  state powers.


Instead of promoting forms of balancing state powers,  an institutional conflict between them has been  stimulated in the Prime Minister’s onion.
    

"The Constitution’s amendment is a project that we need and which covers both changes in the relations between political institutions and strengthening the conditions for citizens participation in decision-making on all levels of government. A discussion of the review / reform of  the Constitution is absolutely necessary and the  Constitution Day is the appropriate framework to  remind us of  this need, which must become a political priority in 2015, released from electoral pressures, " Ponta said, according to Mediafax.


The prime minister listed briefly the constitutional revision directions required by society and by the last year developments, namely a clear definition of executive powers and the framework for good institutional collaboration within the Executive, ensuring the independence of justice and strengthening the rule of law, the end of  permitted  abuses and better protection of  citizens against new forms of interference in their private life, the development of participatory democracy that harmoniously complement representative democracy, strengthening mechanisms for dialogue between political institutions and civil society, further decentralization, including the establishment of regions, as administrative-territorial units.
 

"The strong social  status,  the fundamental rights and freedoms, market economy, balance and separation of powers, independence of the judiciary - are fundamental elements that we want, all consolidated and increasingly respected," Ponta said. 

The prime minister also said that the revision of the Constitution must, at the same time, be complemented by a genuine electoral reform (through a new Electoral Code, reducing the number of MPs and "returning  to a fair electoral system") and the modernization and genuine reform of local government (for reducing bureaucracy and improving  administration).


Ponta ends his message saying it essential that all Romanian citizens and also all responsible political actors, especially those who assume the roles of political representation, to be aware that the Basic Law is both a legal act designed to establish rules of organization and operation  in the society and a real social pact, which gives citizens the guarantee of good governance and protection against abuse of any kind.

 

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