Considerations on Legal Conflicts of a Constitutional Nature between the President and Other Authorities
Abstract
This study aims, first of all, to present a specific attribution of the Romanian Constitutional Court, introduced by the 2003 revision of the Constitution, namely the settlement of legal conflicts of a constitutional nature between public authorities.
In the second part of this article, we comment upon the Constitutional Court’s decisions on the legal conflicts of a constitutional nature between the head of state and different state institutions, in the recent years.
Our analysis reveals a permanent deterioration of the relationships between the President and other public authorities, fact which has led to an obvious disruption in the democratic exercise of government.
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