​LP ADDRESSED TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ABOUT GOVERNMENT DECISIONS ON BANKS

Liberal MPs addressed on Wednesday an inquiry to the Constitutional Court about secret decisions of the Government on the case of Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank. Liberals do not challenge the very decrees, but ask for a justification of classifying these data and the resolutions taken by the Government.

Liberal MP Valeriu Munteanu cites the Constitution, where it is said that the right to accessing any information concerning public cases can not be restricted. He also says that such restrictions are possible if it is about national security issues, but in the disputed case the information is connected to spending state money.

“Only authoritarian or totalitarian regimes can restrict the freedom of speech and the right to access information about procedures, means and conditions of public affairs management, as well as the right to distribution of this type of information”, the inquiry says.

Its authors point to the fact that the legislation does not provide the classifying of information, linked to transparency of using hard-currency reserve of the state.

“Moreover, the legislation provides which data may be classified and prohibits classifying of data that represent public interest, as this can negatively affect the implementation of state programs”, say authors of the inquiry.

They are stressing that the Government has taken several resolutions on the case of the three banks; however, the contents of some of them remain unknown so far. Deputies ask the Constitutional Court to make a clear distinction of what relates to state secret and where is the border between the citizens’ right to information and restrictions aimed at people’s protection or national security ensuring. Authors ask that the inquiry to be urgently considered.