#Romania: The Constitutional Court will celebrate the “Centenary of the Constitution of The Unified #Romania (1923

The Constitutional Court will celebrate the “Centenary of the Constitution of Unified Romania (1923 – 2023)” within the Solemn Assembly organized on Monday, March 27, 2023, starting at 10:00 a.m., at the Palace of Parliament, the Plenum Hall of the Senate “King Michael I of Romania” (Calea 13 Septembrie nr.1-3, Intrarea A1, P1).

The Solemn Assembly is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Unified Romania of 1923 and opens the series of events and manifestations organized by the Constitutional Court during 2023, which was declared by the Plenum of the Constitutional Court, in the meeting of January 18, this year – the Year of the “Centenary of the Constitution of Unified Romania”.

Among the invited personalities are the President of Romania, Mr. Klaus Werner Iohannis, the President ad interim of the Senate, Mrs. Alina Ștefania Gorghiu, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mr. Ion-Marcel Ciolacu, the Prime Minister of Romania, Mr. Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă, the President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, Mrs. Judge Corina Alina Corbu, as well as the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Daniel.

The event also enjoys the participation of Mr. Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Mrs. Octavia Spineanu-Matei, Judge on behalf of Romania at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Mrs. Claire Bazy-Malaurie, President of the European Commission for Democracy through Law in Venice, Mr. Mamadou Badio Camara, President of the Association of Francophone Constitutional Courts (A.C.C.F.), of constitutional judges of the Republic of Moldova, of presidents and judges of other European constitutional courts, of high representatives of central public authorities, as well as of representatives of the academic environment in the country and abroad.

During the event, the original copies of the Constitution of 1923 and the Constitution of 1866 will be presented, within a thematic exhibition of relevant documents and photographs, organized in the Foyer of the Senate, in collaboration with institutional partners.

On the same occasion, in collaboration with Romfilatelia SA, a postage stamps issue dedicated to the “Centenary of the Constitution of Unified Romania” will be launched.

On March 28, 2023, we celebrate 100 years since the adoption of the Constitution of Unified Romania. Between November 1922 and March 1923, the Assembly of Deputies and the Senate, as Constituent Assemblies, drafted and debated within their own committees, the draft Constitution which was adopted on March 26, 1923 by the Assembly of Deputies, respectively on March 27, 1923 by the Senate. On March 28, 1923, the Constitution of the Unified Romania was promulgated, as a constitutional settlement necessary “for the consolidation and thorough propagation of our precious Romanians.”

The adoption of the Constitution of 1923 marks a unique moment in the constitutional and state history of Romania, through which the national project of the Romanians for the achievement of the Romanian national unitary state was completed and consolidated, at the level of the Fundamental Law, being the political-legal act that allowed the legislative and administrative unification of the Romanian state after the Great Union of 1918.

The Constitution of 1923 enshrined for the first time in the constitutional history of Romania, through art.103, “the right to judge the constitutionality of laws and to declare inapplicable those that are contrary to the Constitution”.

The News247WorldPress team is proud to participate in the anniversary of the Constitution with the status of guest from the President of the Romanian Senate Mrs. Alina Stefania Gorghiu.