“I’ve thought about it [resigning] and it would be extremely cowardly of me. My resignation would be the end goal of the people who staged this coup d’etat and I don’t want them to reach their goal. If the Constitutional Court says otherwise, very well, I will leave. But it would be ridiculous to successfully complete this coup myself,” Basescu told a news conference.
He added he cannot resign from a position he does not hold since he is currently suspended from office.
He also reminded that he promised he would resign as president, if he returns to office, if the governing Social Liberal Union accepts his conditions: revise the Constitution to shorten the presidential term to four years instead of five and switch to a single-chamber Parliament with maximum 300 lawmakers.