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President Iohnnis: I am publicly requesting the resignation of Mrs. Dancila from the position of Prime Minister of Romania
President Klaus Iohannis stated on Friday that he is withdrawing his trust in Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, claiming that she cannot handle the position of Prime Minister.
"I am publicly requesting the resignation of Mrs. Dancila from the position of Prime Minister of Romania", said Iohannis, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.
The government announced President Klaus Iohannis's office that PM Viorica Dancila won't show up on Friday at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace, the Presidential Administration announced.
President Iohannis came out publicly Friday morning demanding Premier Dancila's resignation for playing into the hands of the Social Democratic Party and turning the government into a vulnerability for Romania.
The day before the head of the state had said that he was supposed to meet on Friday with PM Viorica Dancila to discuss the harmonization of the National Bank's policies with the government's fiscal policies.
President Klaus Iohannis said on Friday that the secret foreign policy memorandum discussed last week in the Government meeting - regarding the relocation of Romania's Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - was a big mistake.
"Last week, a secret document, a secret memorandum on foreign policy, was discussed in the Government. That was a big mistake, because in foreign policy matters, if we are talking about secret documents, which are obviously sensitive, otherwise they would not be secret, the president should have been consulted, which did not happen. In the Constitution, in all decisions of the Romanian Constitutional Court, in the Romanian political practice, it is stated and it is known that an institutional consultation between the prime minister and the president is necessary, in Romania's interest , not somebody else's. It is in the best interest of Romania, and not in the interest of any individual, for public authorities to loyally cooperate," Iohannis said at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.
He stressed that "these things and these needs of the state have not been understood" by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila.