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RFE/RL (Un)Civil Societies
Vol. 2, No. 6, 7 February 2001

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ROMANIA
 
MAYORS OPPOSE NEW LAW ON LOCAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. The mayors of
eight large Romanian towns, meeting in Brasov on 3 February, called on
the government to amend the recently passed Local Public
Administration Law, RFE/RL's Bucharest bureau reported. The mayors say
the law contravenes the constitution and the provisions of the
European Charter on Local Autonomy. The mayors oppose the provision in
the law granting prefects the prerogative to dismiss those mayors
against whom a court case has been launched, and do so even before the
court has ruled on the matter. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase said the
cabinet will examine the possibility to abolish this prerogative. The
mayors also said they oppose the provision in the new law granting
national minorities the right to officially use their language in
localities where these minorities make up 20 percent or more of the
population. ("RFE/RL Newsline," 5 February)
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 27, Part II, 8 February 2001


ROMANIAN PRESIDENT TO PROMULGATE CONTROVERSIAL LAW. President Ion
Iliescu said on 7 February that he will promulgate the law on Local
Public Administration once the parliament ends the approval process.
He said the article in the law allowing national minorities to use
their languages in localities where they make up 20 percent of the
population "is correct from all points of view" and "in line with the
spirit of the constitution." Members of the Party of Social Democracy
in Romania (PDSR) parliamentary group in the Senate have voiced
misgivings about the article, and the extremist Greater Romania Party
(PRM) is opposed to approval of the law because it contains that
provision. MS


ROMANIAN OPPOSITION PARTY OPPOSES HUNGARIAN DEMAND. National Liberal
Party (PNL) First deputy Chairman Valeriu Stoica, in an interview on
Romanian Radio on 7 February, said the PNL will oppose the demand of
the Hungarian Democratic Federation of Romania to amend the
constitutional provision that defines Romania as a "national state."
Stoica said the "myth of the national state" is the "corner-stone of
the modern world" and "its dismemberment would also mean the
dismemberment of that world." He said that "any myth has a beneficial
and a harmful side" and "one must not emphasize the harmful aspect
alone" because of its influence on "some excesses in the last
century." A PNL-PDSR team began negotiations on amending the
constitution on 7 February. MS

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