The National Unity Party (PUN) demands to annul the fines imposed on private individuals and legal entities during the pandemic as abusive. The party’s president Octavian Țîcu filed a relevant application to the Constitutional Court, IPN reports.
In a press release, the UN says the norms providing that the non-observance of the epidemic prophylaxis, prevention and combating measures if this endangers public health is punished with a fine of 22,500 to 25,000 lei in the case of private individuals and of 50,000 to 75,000 lei in the case of legal entities runs counter to the Constitution and the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Many citizens were fined for the simple reason that they walked alone through parks without a real danger of contamination or transmission of epidemic diseases existing there. In other cases, the citizens were fined only because they didn’t have identification papers on them.
“It is inadmissible for the state to fleece its citizens by abusive methods, the size of fines being disproportionate to their modest gains. Fines totaling 36 million lei have been imposed so far,” runs the press release.
