Senate chairman Crin Antonescu said the Parliament will ask the Constitutional Court Thursday to issue a standpoint on the impeachment request in 24 hours.
People familiar with the matter said earlier the Parliament might take a vote on the request to impeach Basescu Friday, after the document is read out and debated by the plenum on Thursday.
Under the Constitution, if the impeachment request is approved by the legislature, a referendum on the matter will be held within 30 days.
On Wednesday, USL submitted with the Parliament’s standing bureaus a request to start impeachment proceedings against Basescu, whom it accuses of having repeatedly breached the Constitution.
According to the impeachment request, Basescu violated the fundamental law when he said he would not name an USL prime minister even if the Union obtained absolute majority in Parliament.
The head of state repeatedly breached the separation of powers principle and the independence of the judiciary. He put pressure on Constitutional Court judges and encouraged the nonobservance of Constitutional Court decisions, reads the document.
USL accuses the president of having abandoned his constitutional role of mediator.
The bill to revise the fundamental law, sponsored by Basescu, is unconstitutional and the head of state also breached Constitution revision procedures, reads the document.