Romanian president, Traian Basescu, to be suspended by the Romanian Parliament
Romanian president, Traian Basescu, to be suspended by the Romanian Parliament Bucharest - The governing majority in the Romanian Parliament, formed by Social-Democrat Party (ex-communists), Liberal Party and the conservatives are pushing for a new suspension from office of the Romanian president Traian Basescu. The coalition (USL) submitted on Wednesday to Parliament a request to suspend the president, whom they accuse of violations of the Constitution. Members of the Chamber of Deputies and Romanian Senators are supposed to vote this request on Friday. Yesterday (Tuesday), the same majority managed to change in just a few hours, through a contested vote, Presidents of both Houses and the Ombudsman. Both chiefs of Senate, Vasile Blaga, and of Chamber of Deputies, Roberta Anastase, are members of PDL (Democrat-Liberal Party) who was led by Traian Basescu before he became president. The new President of the Senate, Crin Antonescu, president of the Liberal Party, is going to assume the role of interim president of Romania , in case the Friday vote passes and a popular referendum would also approve the change. PDL leaders call the unexpected political developments in Bucharest a coup d’etat and an attack on the democracy in Romania . „You’ve opened a path towards anarchy, you want to take Romanians out of Europe “, launched Vasile Blaga towards prime-minister Victor Ponta, co-chairman of the USL with Crin Antonescu. In a televised statement, president Basescu also asked USL leaders "to stop the attacks on the democratic institutions of the Romanian state". In response, the USL government led by Victor Ponta restricted today the power of Constitutional Court judges to rule on decisions of the Parliament, making political analysts fear that Romania might be speeding backwards to the political chaos of the 1990s. The USL coalition is in power since the 7 th of May, after the majority in the Parliament shifted from one side to the other, USL parties actively recruiting senators and MPs from the former PDL majority. President Traian Basescu and PDL are highly unpopular after taking some of the harshest austerity measures in the European Union, in the last three years. The ne
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