In the opinion it adopted in 2012 on Romania, in relation to a presidential recall, the Commission underlined, as a fundamental requirement for recall processes, that a clear distinction should be made between the legal and political responsibility of the contested office holder. The Commission noted in particular: “The procedure for suspending the President confuses in a rather peculiar way legal and political responsibility. It tends to make the President politically responsible before the Parliament and the electorate, although the grounds for dismissal are formulated in a way which invokes legal responsibility. The role of the Constitutional Court in the procedure is also rather unclear. If maintained at all, the procedure of Article 95 of the Constitution on the suspension of the President as it stands should be transformed into a clearly legal responsibility, initiated by Parliament but settled by a court.”