Senate chairman Petru Filip told Mediafax Friday the standing office would meet at the beginning of next week to approve a special meeting of the Senate plenum on Tuesday.
Chamber of Deputies speaker Valeriu Zgonea said he would propose the extraordinary session of the lower house take place Wednesday.
On July 5, the Government issued an emergency ordinance amending the referendum law to provide that the head of state may be impeached with the votes of the majority of participants in the ballot. The amendment reversed a recent change to the referendum law whereby the President could be removed from office with the majority of all eligible voters in the country.
Romania’s Constitutional Court decided Tuesday that the new referendum law is constitutional only if 50% plus one of all voters cast ballots.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta was in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday for talks with EU officials on the current political situation in Romania, after the European Commission expressed concerns over the consequences of the recent decisions taken by the Government, particularly regarding a series of measures which limited the powers of the Constitutional Court.
Ponta said Thursday he is willing to revise any measure that proves to be in violation of EU regulations.
Romania scheduled for July 29 a referendum on whether to oust suspended president Traian Basescu or not.