After approximately one month from the start of the procedures for the suspension of President Traian Basescu, SDP made the first step yesterday when they filed the suspension proposition at the Parliament. The SDP members ignored the PMâs appeal for a delay.
25 pages and 27 charges huddled together in six chapters. This is the SDP (the Social Democratic Party) document regarding the suspension of President Basescu. The document is made by a team of attorneys of the party, has also been consulted by GRP (the Great Romania Party) and CP (the Conservatory Party) and was approved by the SDP leading board yesterday. This is a much more consistent text than the one in 1994 against Ion Iliescu, which only had two and a half pages and 6 charges. The document signed by 182 Parliament members from SDP and GRP is no more than an enumeration of facts against the Romanian Constitution that took place during the two years since the last presidential elections. All kind of press statements, interventions at different reunions, decisions and actions of the "player, drinker and dancer", as Mircea Geoana called Traian Basescu yesterday, are present in this document. "The Traian Basescu political project is one regarding a dictatorial Basescu, who permanently denigrates the walls of democracy, the political parties, the Parliament, the justice, the civil society, and all of these seem to prepare the ground for a well-planned coup dâetat. Traian Basescu targets the instauration of a populist authoritarian regime in his own image", Geoana said.
FACTS. Some of the 27 constitutional illegalities enumerated in the incriminating document are the arrogation of the quality of "player-President", "the embezzlement of the electorateâs whish" during the 2004 elections, the blocking of the Parliament after trying to revoke the presidents of the two Chambers, asking PM Calin Pope
