2024
Andrei-Răzvan LUPU, Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Parliamentary questions and interpellations. Confusions, clarifications, proposals
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.31178/AUBD/2024.15
Abstract: Parliamentary questions and interpellations have rarely attracted the interest of the jurisprudence, despite their intensive use as a means of control by the parliamentary opposition. The lack of studies was accompanied by a poor understanding of the instruments in parliamentary practice, these have been used interchangeably in almost all cases. For its part, the Constitutional Court did not make a firm distinction between the two, limiting itself to constantly listing them as means of parliamentary control over the government. The introduction into the parliamentary regulations of some similar procedures, such as the Government’s Hour, reinforced the pre-existing confusions. We therefore aim, through this study, to clarify the distinctions regarding the purpose, use and effects of questions and interpellations, respectively, hoping to correct future parliamentary practice.
Keywords: questions; interpellations; parliamentary control; government liability.
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