Members of TVR, "appointed unconstitutional"

The Constitutional Court has admitted the appeal of Democrat-Liberals on the non constitutionality of plenary concerning the composition of the Board of the Romanian Television Society, validated at the end of June.

According to the decision cited by Radio Romania editor , Mădălina Verman, those eight Council members will lose this quality with the publication of the decision of the Court in the Official Gazette.

In June, Parliament approved with 208 votes "for" new members of the Board of Directors of TVR.

On June 12, TVR's Board, headed by Alexander Lăzescu, President-director general of TVR, was dismissed by the Parliament, which rejected the report of activity of television on 2011. Interim general manager of TVR was named Radu Călin Cristea.

Romanian television society ended the year 2011 with a deficit of $ 160.8 million, while public television had, last year, the total revenue of about 583 million lei, according to the report of activity of SRTv.

Notification regarding the establishment of the Romanian representative at the EC meetings admitted in part.

Constitutional judges have upheld in part the appeal relating to the PDL law which lays down the conditions for appointing the leader of the delegation of Romania to European Council meetings.

According to them, the three articles of the law are unconstitutional.

The normative act to return now to Parliament to be amended and put in agreement with the decision of the Court.

The full Senate adopted, at the end of June, the law on cooperation between Government and Parliament in European Affairs, which states that Parliament determines who goes to the European Council, where the President and the Prime Minister do not reach an agreement.

According to the amendments to the joint committees, the head of the Romanian delegation to the meetings of the European Council is the Romanian President or Prime Minister.

Setting the delegation leader of Romania at the European Council meetings shall be made by agreement between the Government and the presidential institution, with at least 20 working days before the meeting.

The project envisages that, in a situation where the agreement on participation in the European Council is not carried out within, the Parliament, in a joint sitting of the two chambers, designates the head of the delegation of Romania to the European Council meeting.

PDL appeal on Vasile Blaga revocation’s from the Chair of the Senate was postponed to Thursday, when it was decided that Crin Antonescu remains as a chairman of the Senate.


Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura