Head of Court of Appeal on referendum in justice: I don’t know how we could proceed with it

The president of the Bucharest Court of Appeal, Liana Arsenie, says she does not know whether magistrates will participate in a possible referendum on justice, proposed by President Nicușor Dan, because she does not believe it is „our role in this game.”

Liana Arsenie stated on MEDIAFAX’s OFF The Record program that this initiative is „exclusively political.”

„I don’t know if they (the judges – ed.) will participate. I wonder what our role is in this game, which is exclusively political and for political capitalization. When you remove responsibility from a person’s conduct and make them anonymous, regardless of their education or professional status, all you will achieve is something that cannot be used to examine a system. And so, in this context, I don’t know what purpose it serves or who it serves, which is why it is very important for us, every judge, to think about what we are looking for in this game. And if it is our role, if it is our place in this game, if we...