The outgoing president, Klaus Iohannis, ends his term at the Cotroceni Palace, with the interim position to be taken over by the president of the Senate, Ilie Bolojan, on Wednesday.
The ceremony to end Iohannis’ term will take place on Wednesday at the Cotroceni Palace, according to the Presidential Administration.
Klaus Iohannis resigned from office on Monday, in the context in which the Parliament had initiated the procedure for his suspension from the position of head of state. He claimed that the suspension procedure would lead Romania into crisis and ”absolutely no one will understand what the point of such an approach is, when the president is set to leave anyway.’. „We will effectively be the laughing stock of the world,” Klaus Iohannis said on Monday, when announcing his resignation.
„In order to spare Romania and the Romanian citizens from this crisis, from this unnecessary and negative development, I am resigning from the position of President of Romania. I will leave office (…) on February 12th. God bless Romania!” Iohannis said.
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday found the position of president of Romania vacant and ruled that Ilie Bolojan, president of the Senate, would take over the interim position at Cotroceni Palace as of February 12.
Klaus Iohannis was elected head of state for two terms. His last term was supposed to end on December 21, 2024, but the Constitutional Court annulled the presidential election and decided that Iohannis would remain at Cotroceni until a new president is elected. The CCR’s decision came after the CSAT (Supreme Council for Country Defence) declassified information received from the SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service), SIE (Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service) and the Ministry of Interior regarding the electoral campaign conducted by Calin Georgescu in the presidential election.
Ilie Bolojan is to provide the interim position at the Cotroceni Palace until May. The first round of the presidential election will be organized on May 4, and the second on May 18. Bolojan will suspend himself from office as president of the PNL (National Liberal Party).
AGERPRES
