Alex Craciun Is Not Respecting the Romanian Constitution

Day 729, 05:00 • Published in Romania Hungary • by Zoli
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The constitution is a set of rules for government that establishes principles of an autonomous political entity. In the case of countries, this term refers specifically to a national constitution defining the fundamental political principles, and establishing the structure, procedures, powers and duties, of a government. By limiting the government's own reach, most constitutions guarantee certain rights to the people. (Source: Wikipedia)

There are only a few countries in eRepublik that have a constitution. If I am not mistaken the first country that had a Constitution was Ireland and it was created by Michael Collins. In May 2008 Romania created its own Constitution based on the model drawn up by Michael Collins. If interested you can read the Romanian Constitution here to see that Alex Craciun posted it and admins aproved it.

In this article I will point out a few articles of the Romanian Constitution the current Government of Romania is not respecting. Grab a beer and popcorn.

Rights of the Citizens

Art. 16. No one is above the law.
This means that everybody, including the country president must respect the laws and this constitution.

Art. 17. The right of access to public, civil, or military positions or dignities shall be granted, according to the law, to persons whose citizenship is Romanian and whose domicile is in Romania.

Several members of the Romanian Government are not Romanian citizens and / or do not reside in Romania, so Alex Craciun did not respect the Romanian Constitution when he appointed them.
mihail.cazacu – MoD - Citizenship: Hungary; Location: Hungary
sebahmah – EDEN – Romania liaison – Citizenship: Belgium; Location: Spain
smif – National Bank Governor – Citizenship: Moldavia

The Government

Art. 38. The president shall appoint a vice president by clearly stating his choice in his newspaper. The vice president can be any citizen, and his only duty will be to assume the role of President in the event that the current President is banned from eRepublik.

Alex Craciun did not nominate a person as his vice president so he is yet again breaking the Romanian Constitution.

Art. 44. All Presidents, Ministers and Mayors are to vow upon abiding from any act that may considered high treason, by signing a dedicated contract in the specific section of the in-game forum within 72 hours from being installed in the function.

None of the above stated people signed a contract regarding this issue. They are all breaking the eRepublik Constitution. I will not mention that Romania should have amended the Constitution when Mayors became Congress Members, but still the President and Ministers should have signed the contract as stated in the Constitution.

International Relations

Art. 45. Romania affirms its devotion to the ideal of peace and friendly co-operation amongst nations.

Alex Craciun broke Art. 45 several times. He attacked Hungary, he attacked Ukraine. How about the devotion to the ideal of peace and friendly co-operation amongst nations? As Art. 16. states: “No one is above the law”. This means that Alex Craciun broke the law and he should step down.

Not only the Romanian President broke this article a few times, he won the last re-election promising war, so he is preparing to break the law again.

Art. 46. Romania affirms its adherence to the principle of the pacific settlement of international disputes.

Members of the Romanian Government took part directly in the eUNL liberation wars and liberated a Belgian region against the will of the inhabitants. That government member, a former president of Romania still has Belgian citizenship. He should step down and apologize for his actions and for not respecting the will of the people expressed through this constitution.

As you have seen Alex Craciun and his Government broke at least 6 articles of the Romanian Constitution: Art. 16, Art. 17, Art. 38, Art. 44, Art. 45 and Art. 46. Do you wonder what should be done? The Constitution regulates this situation.

The Courts and Attorney General

Art. 55. In the event of the president or a mayor being charged with a crime, the Congress will appoint The Attorney General and the 5 members of the Supreme Court to handle this case only. This appointment will be made by a simple vote in the dedicated forum.

You may say that this Constitution cannot be put into practice, but you are wrong.

The Laws

Art. 58. The administrators of Erepublik have the authority to put in effect any part of this Constitution or any laws and decisions deriving from it.

This Constitution can be found on the forum of eRepublik as Contract 26932 and approved by the Admin’s decision nr. 468 on the 5th of May 2008.

This means this is a valid contract and anybody with Romanian citizenship and Romanian residence can open a claim towards the eRep Team, respecting eRep Rules, to ask them to enforce this Constitution.

Until then it is a moral issue. Based on the fact that Alex Craciun is breaking the Constitution of Romania which was voted by the Romanian population he should apologize for his actions and resign immediately.


P.S. mihail.cazacu, one person who according to this Constitution has no right to be MoD of Romania made an interesting comment: "relax, the "Romanian Constitution" it's piece of garbage from the time our players had no clue about what this game is about." I would like to remind him that Alex Craciun posted the Romanian Constitution on the forum back then.