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Instabilitatea legislaţiei electorale
The Unstable Nature of Electoral Law

Author(s): Corneliu-Liviu Popescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Centrul de Studii Internationale
Keywords: Electoral rights; electoral laws; organic laws; emergency executive regulations; judicial constitutional review

Summary/Abstract: Although the Constitution expressly forbids the use of emergency ordinances in the field of electoral rights, which may only be regulated through organic laws, in practice all electoral laws (for the European Parliament elections, national parliaments, for the presidential and local elections) were substantially and repeatedly modified through emergency ordinances. The Constitutional Court has proven very permissive in violating the will of the constitution-makers concerning the Parliament’s monopoly of the field.

  • Issue Year: 5/2009
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 3-9
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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