Parliament gave a final reading to a bill that imposes restrictions on running in elections for representatives of parties that were outlawed. The limitation will be valid for three to five years of the date the Constitutional Court passes the decision by which the party is declared unconstitutional, IPN reports.
This way, persons who at the moment the political party was outlawed were members of this party’s executive body, held elective posts or were on the lists of substitute candidates on behalf of the outlawed party will be unable to run in elections.
The legislative proposal was put forward by a group of MPs of the Party of Action and Solidarity in order to adjust the legal framework after the Constitutional Court declared the Shor Party unconstitutional and dissolved it.
The bill provides that the symbols of the outlawed parties cannot be used by other political parties, electoral blocs or election contenders. The amendment that extended the ban on running in elections from three to five years was accepted.
The proposal was also amended to enable the electoral body to ascertain voter corruption acts and to order the annulment of the registration of the candidate or election runner.
The head of the Parliament’s legal commission for appointments and immunities Olesea Stamate proposed supplementing the Criminal Code with offenses that refer to party switching. Passive corruption for persuading someone to defect from a party to join another will be punished with up to seven years in jail and with a fine of at most 300,000 lei, while active political corruption – with up to six years in jail and with a fine of at most 200,000 lei. Aggravating forms are stipulated for each of the two offenses.
