​President Basescu addresses the Parliament on matters of internal politics, news agency Agerpres informs. The chief of state said that he believed it was necessary to address the Parliament to underline some o the elements proposed for the revision of the Constitution. During his speech, opposition leaders Crin Antonescu and Victor Ponta talk to journalists in another chamber of the Parliament. News television Realitatea TV airs images without sound with the two leaders of the opposition talking to journalists.

Here are Basescu’s main statements:

My presence in the Parliament is related strictly to the proposal to revise the Constitution

I believed it was necessary to be in the Parliament to present some of the elements revising the constitution

In the decision of the Constitutional Court related to the project revising the constitution there are recommendation that can be considered

Some of the elements from the project revising the Constitution: to implement the result of the 2009 referendum on creating a unicameral parliament and on decreasing the number of parliamentarians

There are serious grounds for changing the structure because the two chambers are behaving as a unicameral system by tacitly adopting laws

Any project will be debated and adopted in two readings

The parliament can adopt projects in emergency procedure by decreasing the 30 day deadline

I proposed the obligation of judges to submit to the authority of the constitution, law and decisions of the Constitutional Court whose mandatory character was not always respected by courts

I considered that the President of Romania should not be a part in the Superior Council of Magistracy

I considered we need to clarify the relations between the Parliament, President and governmen