The law was adopted by the Parliament on February 28, 2012 in the absence of opposition lawmakers, who are boycotting the legislature’s activity.
The lustration law states that all those who were members of the PCR (Romanian Communist Party), members in the country’s communist State Council and Council of Ministers, diplomats, state secretaries, party secretaries, police inspectors, prosecutors, as well as people who worked for the secrete police Securiatate in the March 6, 1945 and December 22, 1989 interval will not be allowed to fill public positions for five consecutive years starting the moment the lustration law is enforced.
On March 7, the High Court of Justice decided to notify the Constitutional Court concerning the unconstitutionality of an article of the law, after it received notification from two associations of magistrates and from Romania’s prosecutor general.