{"id":292160,"date":"2025-02-11T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=292160"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:05:24","slug":"romanian-president-klaus-iohannis-resigns-ahead-of-election-re-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=292160","title":{"rendered":"Romanian President Klaus Iohannis resigns ahead of election re-run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dailynews.co.tz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ap.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Romania&#8217;s President Klaus Iohannis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUCHAREST, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Romania\u2019s President Klaus Iohannis has resigned following pressure for him to step down ahead of a re-run of a presidential election that was controversially cancelled last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The December vote was voided by Romania\u2019s top court after allegations of Russian state meddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outgoing Iohannis, a pro-EU liberal, had said he would stay on in office until a successor was elected in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that had been strongly criticised by far-right politicians and their supporters, who had performed well in the first round of the vote in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their criticism had inspired tens of thousands of Romanians to take to the streets last month in protest against the election\u2019s cancellation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposition lawmakers had launched a motion in parliament again on Monday to move for the president\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Iohannis said he would step down, in a bid to limit what he said would have been be a \u201cdamaging\u201d and divisive referendum for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn order to spare Romania and the Romanian citizens from crisis\u2026 I resign from the office of president of Romania,\u201d he said. He said he would officially stand down on Wednesday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUCHAREST, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Romania\u2019s President Klaus Iohannis has resigned following pressure for him to step down ahead of a re-run of a presidential election that was controversially cancelled last year. The December vote was voided by Romania\u2019s top court after allegations of Russian state meddling. The outgoing Iohannis, a pro-EU liberal, had said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292161,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292160\/revisions\/292161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}