OPINIONS OF THE ROMANIAN MPs ON THE EXERTION OF DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OVER THE INSTITUTIONS IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM

Beyond the legal and organizational analyses and solutions of the parliamentary control over the security sector, as they are established and supported, by the Centre of Geneva for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the subjective issues, as resulted from the practice and context of the effective exertion of this control, completes the analysis frame of this phenomenon and offers additional possibilities of interpretation and generation of improvement solutions in the field.The evolutions of the security concept in the last years, as well as the increase of prevention and combat measureas of the actual risks and threats on the security environment resulted in the perception among the communities, and sometimes certitudes, that certain fundamental rights and freedoms have been affected, which generated political and diplomatic reactions as never before. Thus, the manifestation context of the democratic control over the institutions in the national security system has become a topic for analysis and public debate of maximum interest, generating perspectives about reconsidering the specific instruments of it.Given the context, the investigation of the MPs’ opinion and the interdisciplinary interpretation of the data obtained may prove to be viable solutions, not only for a deeper knowledge on the phenomenon studied, but especially for the establishment of certain ways of strengthening the parliamentary control mechanisms, adapted to the political and social issues at a time and more easily to be accepted by those appointed to promote and implement them