Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) decided that the law prohibiting convicted lawyers to practice is constitutional, reports local News.ro.

The CCR judges rejected yesterday the exception of unconstitutionality to a provision that bans lawyers from practicing if they have a conviction.

According to sources in CCR, the case is similar to the provision that prohibits convicted people to become members of the government. That case is also under assesment at the Constitutional Court, and judges have postponed their decision for the third time this week.

The stakes are high, because that law prevented Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Liviu Dragnea to take the Prime Minister seat after his party’s victory in the December 11 parliamentary elections due to a suspended prison sentence. CCR has postponed a decision in that case until April 27.

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