Clotilde Armand gave up her mandate as a senator on Friday, after a day ago she defied the decision of the High Court of Cassation and went to take up her mandate as a parliamentarian, although the Supreme Court rejected on December 11 her appeal against the decision Bucharest Court of Appeal, regarding the ANI incompatibility report.
Clotilde Armand at the USR Congress. PHOTO Inquam Photos Octav Ganea
“The undersigned Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand, identified by CNP – elected as a senator in the Bucharest constituency, convey by this request that I renounce the right to take over the mandate of senator”, wrote Clotilde Armand in a document submitted to the General Secretariat of the Senate, published on Friday by Antena 3 CNN.
We remind you that, on Thursday, the former mayor of District 1 Clotilde Armand, who ran for the parliamentary elections on December 1 on the USR list for the Senate, went to the Parliament to take over her mandate.
“I came to take over the mandate. I will come back with statements. I expect the law to be enforced. Inform yourself and read the Rules of the Senate”, claimed Clotilde Armand.
On December 11, the High Court rejected the appeal made by Clotilde Armand against the decision of the Bucharest Court of Appeal regarding the ANI incompatibility report.
“Ms. Clotilde Armand will not be able to take over her mandate”
In fact, the president of USR Bucharest, Vlad Voiculescu, announced, shortly after, that new legal proceedings will be initiated after the former mayor of Sector 1 definitively lost the process in which he requested the annulment of the ANI report.
“Given that this decision is final, it will be enforced in the sense that Mrs. Clotilde Armand will not be able to take over her mandate as a parliamentarian, since from the date of the court decision confirming the existence of a conflict of interest or a states of incompatibility operate the prohibition to hold a public office, including that of parliamentarian, for a period of 3 years”Voiculescu sent.
Armand then reacted through a message on Facebook, after the decision of the High Court, announcing that it would appeal the decision to the European courts.
“I will go ahead and challenge the decision in the European courts,” said Clotilde Armand.
