Crin Antonescu will remain acting president until that date.

The court met Wednesday to debate the outcome of the referendum, but adjourned in the evening to request further information from the Interior Ministry and National Statistical Institute on the number of eligible voters in the country.

The impeachment referendum required a voter turnout of more than 50% of eligible voters to be validated. The Central Electoral Bureau announced the voter turnout was 46.24%, of which an overwhelming 87.52% voted to impeach the head of state.

The Interior Ministry said 18,292,514 eligible voters were registered by July 29, when the referendum was held. The governing Social Liberal Union, which had the president suspended for overstepping his powers and called for the referendum, has asked that the number of eligible voters stated by the ministry be corroborated with the findings of the Statistical Institute, which ran a population census in fall last year, to see if the voter turnout was calculated correctly.

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