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Romania’s National Integrity Agency (ANI) called on prosecutors to investigate a possible conflict on interest in the case of deputies Ioan Cindrea and Karoly Kerekes, who hired their relatives in parliamentary offices, the agency said in a press release Tuesday.

Romanian democrat liberal deputy Petru Calian put forward a proposition to levy excise taxes on soft drinks containing sweetening agents.

Independents are allowed to run for lawmaker seats, as per a Tuesday decision of Romania’s Constitutional Court, which admitted an exception to the Law regarding by-elections, raised by Green Party member Remus Cernea.

Romania’s National Integrity Agency, which screens public officials’ wealth for potential cases of corruption, called for prosecution in the case of social democrat deputy Robert Negoita who did not include in his 2009 wealth statement revenues exceeding EUR5 million.

The Bucharest Court of Appeal cancelled, Friday, the deputy mandate obtained by Magyar minority party candidate Koto Jozsef in the electoral college of Romanians abroad, following the case opened by Magyar minority party candidate Benedek Imre Sandor against the Central Electoral Office.