Traian Basescu: Impeachments, biography

Traian Băsescu, President of Romania from 2004 to 2014, is currently deprived of Moldovan citizenship. The newly elected Moldovan president, I. Dodon, believes that Basescu violated the current legislation of the Republic of Moldova when obtaining citizenship.

Traian Basescu: biography

The Romanian city of Basarabi, where the future president was born on November 4, 1951, is now renamed Murfatlar. Traian's father was a military officer.

After graduation from the Institute of Civil Navigation (Constanta) in 1976, Traian Basescu took the captain's bridge of a large-capacity vessel in the Navrom commercial agency.

In 1987, he was appointed head of the agency in Antwerp.

In 1989 he took the post of general director in the State Inspectorate for Civil Navigation, established by the Romanian Ministry of Transport.

In April 1991, Basescu took up the post of Minister of Transport. With two interruptions, he headed the transport ministry of Romania until mid-2000.

The victory in the local election campaign in 2000 allowed him to become the mayor of the Romanian capital in June.

Election as President

12.12.2004. Traian Basescu, whose photo was on many first pages of various periodicals, won the second round of the presidential elections.

He was an ardent Pan-Romanian and an advocate of European integration. Without waiting for Romania to join the European Union, in 2005 he made a plan to unite the country with Moldova. However, the leaders of Moldova were skeptical about this project.
1.01.2007 Romania joined the European Union.

In April 2007, a special parliamentary commission revealed the facts of exceeding the authority given by the head of the Romanian state to the constitution.

The first impeachment

Based on the findings of the commission, the president was declared impeached. Three hundred and thirty-two deputy and senatorial votes were cast for impeachment, although for this purpose it was necessary to collect only 235 votes. They did not support the impeachment of 108 participants in the voting in the parliament.

On May 19, 2007, the question of the resignation of the president was put to a referendum. The results showed that 75 percent of Romanian citizens wanted to leave the country's president in office.

The 2009 re-election

In December 2009, Traian Basescu went to the second round of presidential elections, where he collected 50.33 percent.

At the end of 2010, they were told that the union with Moldova could be implemented in the next twenty-five years, but later this statement was disavowed.

During the 70th anniversary of the launch of the Barbarossa plan, the Romanian president defended dictator Antonescu, justifying his actions seventy years ago. In particular, he supported Antonescu's decision to return the order of 22.06.1941, on the basis of which the Prut River was forced and the border between Romania and the Soviet Union was broken.

Such a statement led to a diplomatic scandal between our country and Romania in late June 2011.

January 2012, the Romanian people remembered mass protests, expressing dissatisfaction with the proposed reform of the health care system. The slogans of the protesters sounded calls for the resignation of the government and the president.
The result of these actions was the resignation of the government of E. Bock.

The second impeachment

On 6 July, the Romanian parliament again impeached the president of the country. The decision was taken by 258 deputy votes. One hundred and fourteen deputies and senators out of 432 voted against.

Acting President temporarily appointed Senate Chairman Crin Antonescu, who headed the Romanian National Liberal Party.

The referendum on impeachment was held on 29.07.2012. On the eve of Traian Basescu urged the Romanians to boycott the referendum.

Impeachment was supported by 87 percent of those who voted, but since the turnout was low (only 46 percent of the population), the results of the referendum were declared invalid.

After the Romanian Constitutional Court recognized the results of the referendum as invalid, President Basescu again began to fulfill his duties.

In the summer of 2012, Traian Basescu made a statement about the former King Mihai, saying "Russian lackey," for the cessation of cooperation with Hitler in 1944, the arrest of Antonescu and the opening of the front for Soviet troops. The president did not arrive at the parliamentary speech of Mihai on the day of his birth. From the side of the royal house, after this conflict, critical voices about the policy pursued by the president were often heard.

In 2013, President Basescu expressed support for the idea of holding a referendum on the return of the monarchy.

In late 2013, they announced their intention to create a unified state with Moldova, which again did not find support from the Moldovan leadership.

05/10/2014 Romania closed its airspace without any explanation, as a result of which a government plane with Russian State Duma deputies led by Dmitry Rogozin could not fly out of Transnistria after holding celebrations on the occasion of the Victory Day celebrations.

21.12.2014 Klaus Johannis became the President of Romania.