Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his resignation on Monday after a procedure to impeach him was launched and as anger boils over last year’s cancelled presidential vote.......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
The country’s top court pulled presidential elections slated for December after claims of Russian meddling and the first-round victory of a previously little-known, far-right candidate.
Pressure had been growing on pro-European Iohannis, who had said he would remain in office until his successor was elected at a new vote in May.
Lawmakers on Monday launched a procedure to impeach Iohannis, following two previous attempts by the opposition to start the process.
“In order to spare Romania and the Romanian citizens from crisis… I resign from the office of president of Romania,” Iohannis said, adding that he would officially stand down on Wednesday.
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“In a few days, the Romanian Parliament will vote on my suspension and Romania will go into crisis… This whole endeavour will have effects internally and unfortunately also externally,” he added in his address.
He insisted he had “never violated the constitution”.