The USR leader, Dominic Fritz, was reconfirmed on Friday, June 19, unanimously at the party’s leadership. The announcement comes a day after the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ÎCCJ) upheld the decision of the Timișoara Court of Appeal, which found the Timișoara mayor to have a conflict of interest.
“Today, the USR National Office sent an unequivocal message: by unanimous vote, it decided that Dominic Fritz should remain the president of the party.
Following the unfair decision handed down yesterday by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the USR National Bureau met and gave Dominic Fritz a vote of confidence for the position of USR president. Dominic Fritz will also ask for the reconfirmation of the party at the Congress in October“, USR transmits in a statement.
Cristian Seidler, the spokesperson of the party, announces that the decision of the ÎCCJ “is profoundly unfair and disproportionate”
“We are talking about a situation where there is no personal benefit, no prejudice and no act of corruption, but an excessive interpretation of the conflict of interest legislation.
For this reason, Dominic Fritz will continue all legal steps to defend his rights and will refer the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This situation must also be analyzed from the perspective of European standards regarding fundamental rights and the exercise of the public mandate”said Cristian Seidler, USR spokesperson.
Cristian Seidler claims that PSD is spreading false information when it states that the court’s decision would automatically lead to the loss of Dominic Fritz’s mandate.
He states that the law does not provide for this and cites a similar case from 2023, when a mayor from Recaş in a conflict of interest was sanctioned with a salary reduction, not with the termination of his mandate. In his opinion, Dominic Fritz is being treated differently for political reasons, because he is a member of the USR.
“The USR will not take a single step back in the fight for the reform of the state and for the defense of democratic principles. Romania needs strong institutions, rules applied equally to all and leaders who do not accept obedience as a rule of operation of public life”, close the party
On Thursday evening, the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ÎCCJ) issued a final decision in the case opened by the mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, against the ANI report, after which it was declared incompatible.
The case of Dominic Fritz starts from a ANI report from 2024, which concluded that the mayor of Timisoara would have been in a conflict of interest after signing documents necessary to approve an urban project in which the architect Răzvan Negrișanu, a member of USR and the person who had lent him 25,000 lei for the electoral campaign, was involved.
Dominic Fritz announces that he will appeal the ECJ decision to the ECHR.
