The PNL leadership plans to organize a new Congress in the coming period, most likely in August or September, after the court suspended the decisions taken at the June Congress, where the liberals changed the party’s statutes and elected their new leadership.
The announcement was made by the leader of the PNL senators, Daniel Fenechiu, in an interview with RFI. He declared that the party has the necessary majority in the National Political Bureau to convene a new National Council and a new Congress.
“There is the necessary majority in the decision-making forum which is the National Political Bureau and certainly in the near future another National Council and another Congress will be organized, another Statute will be adopted, which will probably have the same provisions as these, but which can no longer be so easily vulnerable through court applications (…). Things will move on”, Fenechiu declared.
Asked when the new Congress could take place, the leader of the liberal senators stated that it could be organized even before autumn.
“My estimate is sometime during August or during September. It’s my estimate, but it could be, if things demand an emergency, it can be organized even faster”said Daniel Fenechiu.
Fenechiu explained that the process regarding the suspension of the decisions of the June Congress could take months or even years, which is why the party does not intend to wait for a final decision before convening a new Congress.
“The files have substance and an appeal. A substance and an appeal in Romania at the moment can last anywhere between eight to ten months and can stretch to a year and a half, two, even more. I think that the pragmatic solution will be to make decisions in our statutory forum and let the justice side move on.” said the leader of the PNL senators.
He added that the liberals will try to prove in court that the actions against the decisions of the Congress have no legal basis and that their suspension represents, in the opinion of the party, a wrong application of the law.
