Before the Timiș Tribunal ruled on the request for suspension, Dominic Fritz had been left without a mandate following a succession of rulings on the subject of a conflict of interest. The High Court of Cassation and Justice had previously established that he had acted “knowingly and deliberately” when signing the administrative documents for a PUZ, in a situation where the beneficiary architect had lent him money during the election campaign. After this decision, the mayor’s duties were taken over by Deputy Mayor Ruben Lațcău.
Also around the time the mandate was terminated, Fritz publicly criticized the Constitutional Court’s decisions regarding the amendment proposed by the PSD, which would have allowed the rules to be applied to situations covered retroactively as well. He said that he would challenge it before the ECHR and maintained that the law was being applied “retroactively,” contrary to the Constitution, warning that he would end up without a mandate within the period stipulated by the new regulation.
Meanwhile, procedural stages also emerged in the proceedings in Timiș: the Timiș Tribunal had previously postponed ruling in the case concerning the prefect’s order challenged by Fritz, following changes made on the courts’ portal regarding the deliberation date.
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