The lower house has the final say on the bill, which needs to be signed by the head of state into law.
Earlier Tuesday, the Chamber’s committees for legal matters and human rights amended the bill to impose a five-year restriction on certain rights of people who filled various positions during the former communist regime.
The lustration law states that all those who were members of the PCR, members in the country’s communist State Council and Council of Ministers, diplomats, state secretaries, party secretaries, police inspectors, 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.
In 2006, Romanian President Traian Basescu condemned communism before the Parliament, but lawmakers failed to pass the lustration law, despite favorable steps taken in this respect.