The lower house had the final say on this normative act, which was rejected with 233 to 73 votes and 21 abstentions.
The law was adopted by the Parliament on February 28, 2012.
It 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 between March 6, 1945 and December 22, 1989 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 notifications from two associations of magistrates and from Romania’s prosecutor general. The Court overruled the law.
If a normative act is ruled unconstitutional in its entirety, the Parliament must adopt a bill rejecting the act.