The Constitutional Court will take up today a request to establish the vacancy of the office of President of Romania and circumstances justifying the interim in the exercising of the office of President of Romania following the resignation from office of President Klaus Iohannis.

Iohannis announced on Monday that he was resigning from the position of President of Romania. He mentioned that he will leave the office on February 12.

The establishment of the reality of circumstances justifying the interim in the exercising of the office of President of Romania is provided for in Law 47/1992 on the statutes of the Constitutional Court.

Thus, Article 44 says:

* (1) The Constitutional Court shall establish the reality of the circumstances justifying the interim in the exercising of the office of President of Romania, and shall notify its findings to the Parliament and to the government.

* (2) The vacancy of the office of President of Romania shall be established at the request of one of the Presidents of the Chambers of Parliament, or of the President ad interim, exercising the attributions of the President of Romania while the President is suspended from office.

* (3) In case the President of Romania has been suspended from office, the request to establish the circumstances justifying the interim shall be made by the President who presided over the proceedings of the common session of the two Chambers of Parliament, on the basis of the decision adopted at the common session.

* (4) If the interim of the office of President of Romania is due to a temporary incapacity to exercise the presidential attributions, the request shall be made by the President of Romania, or by the chair of one of the chambers of Parliament.

Also, Article 45 says: „The request for establishing the reality of the circumstances justifying the interim in the office of President of Romania shall be presented together with the necessary evidence, and the finding of these circumstances shall be pronounced by the Constitutional Court, by the majority of the judges’ votes.”

AGERPRES