Aspecte din practica statală românească privind raporturile Președintelui cu Parlamentul
Aspects of the Romanian State practice regarding the President’s relations with the Parliament

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to present some relevant aspects of Romanian state practice regarding thecooperation between the head of state and the legislature. The collaboration between the President and the Parliamentis a fundamental requirement of the principle of separation of powers, expressed by means of different procedures:addressing messages to Parliament, extending the President’s mandate, convening and dissolving Parliament,promulgation of laws, collaboration on forming Government, placing members of Government under criminalprosecution, initiating referendum, constitutional revision, establishing exceptional measures, suspension of thePresident, impeachment of the head of state for high treason. The disagreements between the Parliament and the Headof state on certain practical aspects of their collaboration created blockages in the exercise of democratic governance.These opposed positions determined the occurrence of legal conflicts of constitutional nature between the twoauthorities, conflicts that were settled by the Constitutional Court. The latter often acted in an arbitrary mannerregarding the excesses of power of the President, who was at the limit of his constitutional prerogatives.

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