Minister Vela says Romania might replace state of emergency with state of alert after May 15

Interior Minister Marcel Vela admitted on Wednesday that the state of emergency could be replaced after May 15 with a state of alert at national level. He said that the purpose of this measure is to protect public health.

“Yes, a state of alert might follow next. Setting up the state of alert means that we could take over some of the decisions in the military ordinances through a decision of the National Committee for Special Emergency Situations. The state of alert is declared by the National Committee for Special Emergency Situations based on a meeting chaired by Romania’s Prime Minister. The state of alert is established based on an existing emergency ordinance, which sets out the steps to be made. Somehow, it is below the level of the state of emergency, there are no military ordinances, certain rights are not limited, but they will be further managed to protect public health, also in the epidemic context, all the decisions, their implementation, their observance, the sanctioning of certain rules being breached, by the National Committee for Special Emergency Situations,” Vela mentioned.

On the other hand, the Interior Minister was pleased with “the manner in which Romanians were responsible and acted in this period.”

Via Agerpres