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PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY – FORM OF PROTECTION AND CARE FOR LAWMAKERS
PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY – FORM OF PROTECTION AND CARE FOR LAWMAKERS

Author(s): Razvan Viorescu
Subject(s): Governance, Public Administration
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Parliamentary immunity; lifting the immunity; legislature; rules on immunity.

Summary/Abstract: Parliamentary immunity is intended to protect and care for lawmakers in contradiction with parliamentary responsibility. The idea assumes to ensure the necessary Parliament conditions during his mandate, he should enjoy social protection. Narrowly, it may be included in the safeguards of the mandate parliamentary immunities. This paper seeks to materialize under the normative frame, this concept from which the parliament benefits. Parliamentary immunity is an institution that cares for both the constitutional law ("the Statute of Deputies and Senators”) and for parliamentary law (principally aspects of immunity, including elements of the case resulting from the regulations of the two rooms). When Romania joined the European Union and has representatives in the European Parliament, parliamentary immunity is necessary in the context of constitutional law compared, at European level.

  • Issue Year: 2/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 99-104
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English