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The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will meet on Wednesday in a joint sitting to vote on the decision regarding President Klaus Iohannis' letter calling for Parliament to be consulted on the organization of the national referendum.
The sitting of Parliament is scheduled for 10:00 hrs.
On April 4, the president sent the chairs of the two Chambers of Parliament a letter on the topics of the national referendum to be held on May 26.
"Pursuant to Article 90 of the Constitution, as well as Articles 2 and 11 of Law No 3/2000 on the organization and running of the referendum, I intend to urge the people to express their sovereign will in the referendum on the following problems of national interest: the ban on amnesty and pardon for corruption offenses, ban on the adoption by the Government of emergency ordinances in the field of crimes, punishments and judicial organization correlated with the right of other constitutional authorities to notify the Constitutional Court in relation to ordinances. Given the legal provisions mentioned, I am consulting Parliament on the organization of a national referendum on the aforementioned issues," Iohannis was saying in the letter sent to Parliament's leadership.
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