ANI asks Supreme Court for earlier consideration of Iohannis' incompatibility case (sources)

The National Integrity Agency (ANI) has asked the Supreme Court of Justice and Cassation (ICCJ) for earlier consideration of the incompatibility case regarding national leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis.

Judicial sources say ANI is dissatisfied with the Supreme Court having set at November 18 the first hearing into the case, two days after the second round of the presidential election.

The case reached the Supreme Court after the Alba Iulia Court of Appeal on September 25, 2013, nullified an ANI report that Iohannis was in a state of office incompatibility. ANI appealed but the case file was much delayed.

In April 2013, Klaus Iohannis was found in a state of incompatibility by ANI for holding simultaneously the office of Sibiu mayor and city representative in the general shareholder of the city's sewage, water and marketplace administration corporations.

Under Article 87 (1)(f) of Law 161/2003, the offices of mayor and deputy mayors are incompatible with the position of representative of a territorial administrative units in the general shareholdership of the corporations of local interest or representative of the government in the general shareholderhsip of a commercial company of national interest.

The person found incompatible has to lose the right to hold a public office or position for three years after dismissal from the pubic office or position or after the rightful end of a term in office. AGERPRES