The former president of the Constitutional Court, Augustin Zegrean, states that, whatever the solution that the Court of Appeal of Bucharest gives in the case opened by Călin Georgescu, this decision will not be final, and an appeal will be judged after a year, or even more. during which they will organize the presidential elections. Zegrean notes the fact that the process open to the Court of Appeal is used by Georgescu for his electoral campaign.
He argued that, in any case, the decision of the Court of Appeal of Bucharest is subject to appeal and, considering the congestion in the courts, it is possible that a definitive solution will be reached even in a year, after they have made the election presidential
“Even if the Court of Appeal gives a decision in a week, in two, I don’t know when they will give, they will give a decision that will be subject to appeal and as far as I know – I practice law and you have practiced it for 150 years – an appeal now to the High Court, to the litigation section, is judged, if you are lucky, after a year from the date of registration, so the elections pass. (…) This man lives for free and you will accuse him again of not spending a leu in the campaign. Tonight, they showed him on all the televisions, only him and only what happened to us”, said Augustin Zegrean, on Monday evening, in a intervention on Antena 3, according to News.ro.
Asked if it is possible for the magistrates of the Court of Appeal to order the resumption of the elections from the second round, Augustin Zegrean answered: “The Court of Appeal cannot admit the request, because it is not competent, he does not have the competence to do so.”
The Court of Appeal of Bucharest postponed, on Monday evening, the decision in the file in which Călin Georgescu contested three decisions of the Central Electoral Office (BEC) taken after the decision of the Constitutional Court to cancel the presidential election, until the resolution of the presidential election. request for recusal of judge Cristina Ardelean. The court will decide on Tuesday. “I suggested this to her, every woman in turn, and as a mother, she is a lioness, so I have the faith to say that if the leap in consciousness is hers, she can become one of the great heroes of this country His conscience counts,” said Călin Georgescu, referring to the judge.
