Here are Basescu’s main statements:
- My presence in the Parliament is related strictly to the proposal to revise the Constitution
- I believed it was necessary to be in the Parliament to present some of the elements revising the constitution
- In the decision of the Constitutional Court related to the project revising the constitution there are recommendation that can be considered
- Some of the elements from the project revising the Constitution: to implement the result of the 2009 referendum on creating a unicameral parliament and on decreasing the number of parliamentarians
- There are serious grounds for changing the structure because the two chambers are behaving as a unicameral system by tacitly adopting laws
- Any project will be debated and adopted in two readings
- The parliament can adopt projects in emergency procedure by decreasing the 30 day deadline
- I proposed the obligation of judges to submit to the authority of the constitution, law and decisions of the Constitutional Court whose mandatory character was not always respected by courts
- I considered that the President of Romania should not be a part in the Superior Council of Magistracy
- I considered we need to clarify the relations between the Parliament, President and government
- I considered to clarify some constitutional rules regarding Romania’s quality of NATO member
- State institutions need to fulfill their obligations that incur from its position as NATO member Romania has the obligation to avoid an excessive budgetary deficit at maximum 3% of GDP and foreign debt at maximum 60% of GDP
- Foreign loans are usually made for investments
- We increased to 48 hours the length of which a person can be retained. This is in the advantage of the retained also because he can ensure his/hers defense
- I believe it will be a mistake not to accept the limitations on Parliamentary immunity; The Parliament need to offer citizens the relaxation that Parliamentarians are not above the law
About territorial reorganization
- There are many who claim that it has been an issue announced on the knees When I do not reach political parties, I start to speak publicly.
- I noticed the lack of appetite of the main governing party for this issue
- Each county has over 44-45 branches of the main institutions.
- Currently governmental agencies are suffocating local administration and mayors and communities cannot react
- We need to let the country breath by cutting the number of governmental agencies and transferring attributions to local administration
- We need to massively restructure agencies
- We need to depoliticize the administration Reorganization is necessary; I do not believe that it is an abandoned topic
- I know that it is not a popular subject
- Let’s diminish the number of stamps one needs, let’s let the country breath