Several NGOs ask for Prime minister Victor Ponta's resignation for 26-in-1 emergency ordinance

Several NGOs ask Prime minister Victor Ponta to resign from office, and the Ombudsman "to challenge the 26-in-1 ordinance" to the Constitutional Court.

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"APADOR-CH alongside 11 nongovernmental organisations have asked today the Ombudsman to notify the Constitutional Court regarding the Emergency Ordinance no. 2/2015, by which the Government brings changes to 26 normative acts from various fields of activity. At the same time, the signatory NGOs ask Prime minister Victor Ponta to resign from office. Although, apparently is just the second emergency ordinance on this year OUG 2/ 2015 (with a neutral title ? Emergency Ordinance to modification some normative acts, as well as other measures) includes in reality 26 emergency ordinances and was published directly in the Official Gazette on Friday, March 13, without being firstly posted on the Government's website to a public debate," a release sent AGERPRES on Monday by APADOR-CH, reads.

According to the source, the signatory organisations deem that this is a way the Government "is trying to mask the abundance of emergency ordinances it has come to the fore in the past years too and for which it was so harshly criticized, by the civil society and the European Commission, too."

"Practically, the Government replaces in this way the Parliament and Romania is governed through Emergency Ordinances (OUGs) issued according to the discretion of the ministers, with no public debate and without being passed through the legislator's constitutional filter," the release says.

APADOR-CH says this is the 6th notification of this kind to the Ombudsman, starting April 2014 regarding the excess of emergency ordinances issued by the Government and asking for...