The Political Party “For People, Nature and Animals” (PONA) requests the senior administration and the justice authorities to organize a series of meetings for overcoming the current communication crisis, to consider the methods of doing the justice sector reform and of staging debates so as to work out and sign an agreement between the three branches of power under the generic name Pact for Justice. The party’s chairman Ion Dron informed about this in a news conference hosted by IPN.
For the first round of discussions, the PONA suggests the following subjects that can be reflected in the Pact for Justice: independence of the judiciary in the administration of justice; financing of the justice system; relations between the judiciary and the other branches of power; ensuring of proper administration of justice; condition of the judges and their public image. “A Pact for Justice assumed by the three branches can today represent the expression of political will, from our viewpoint, for the announced reforms, while at judicial level it will be a framework document for the future for designing and implementing policies in the field of justice, according to the principle of separation and balancing of branches of power,” said the PONA head.
Ion Dron noted that the General Assembly of Judges was suspended due to the crisis involving the three branches. The judicial branch, on one side, and the legislative and executive branches, on the other side, reached a communication deadlock. The judges took a break in order to formulate an appeal and several requests to the two branches. “When they launched the justice sector reform, and not only now, but also the previous years, they broke the scientific law on the required diversity. When you create a system for reforming or managing a subsystem, this system should be more varied than the subsystem that is to be managed. In other words, the reforms in the justice sector started without a minimum consensus on the subjects that are to be addressed as part of the reforms,” stated Ion Dron.
He also said that the signing of a Pact for Justice is a necessity. The document can bring representatives of the legislative, executive and judicial systems to the negotiating table. “To manage to do a reform in a system or another, in the justice sector in particular, three conditions need to be met, namely political will, view on the reform process and management capacities.
“Today, political will is regrettably expressed only when electoral campaigns take place and this will is somehow diluted. In this regard, we consider the signing of a Pact for Justice, a common document assumed by the three branches of power, will be the unambiguous expression of political will, first of all for the implementation of the principle of separation of powers in the state,” said the PONA chairman.
According to him, the capacities for managing the political will and the reformation strategies should not be ignored. “By this call to sign the Pact for Justice, we actually invite not only the three branches of power to become involved and unlock the crisis in justice, but also all those who are ready to take part. Only through dialogue, even if it is contradictory, but is held with good faith, we have the chance to move things on and to change the things that go bad,” concluded Ion Dron.
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