Autoritarism: liberal-constituțional, iliberal și structural
(notă asupra hotărârii Curții Constituționale nr. 32 din 6 decembrie 2024)
Authoritarianism: Liberal-Constitutional, Illiberal and Structural (Note on the Romanian Constitutional Court Ruling No. 32/6th of December 2024)
Author(s): Bogdan IancuSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Public Law
Published by: Uniunea Juriștilor din România
Keywords: Romania; Constitutional Court; presidential elections; annulment; post-communist history; militant democracy; constitutional system; political system; democratic resilience;
Summary/Abstract: In December 2024, for the first time in Romania’s post-communist history, the Constitutional Court annulled the presidential elections while they were still taking place. This unprecedented and drastic move, with profound effects on Romania’s political and constitutional system, has been presented by the Court and its defenders as an act of “militant democracy”—a solution to save democracy from itself through an apparently undemocratic instrument. In the initial public discourse, some even suggested that Romania, through this example of defensive democratic robustness, could serve as a model for the free world.
Journal: Revista „Dreptul”
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 9-15
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Romanian
