{"id":1882,"date":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:01:37","slug":"romanias-electoral-authority-says-president-iohannis-cannot-run-as-independent-on-liberals-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s electoral authority says president Iohannis cannot run as independent on Liberals&#8217; list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian president <strong>Klaus Iohannis<\/strong> can not run as an independent candidate on the parliamentary lists of the Liberal Party (PNL), the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) in Romania ruled, answering a clarification request filed by the PNL.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the episodes related to president Iohannis&#8217;s parliamentary candidacy, a process that risks damaging the Liberal Party&#8217;s credibility and the odds of the Liberal presidential candidate Nicolae Ciuca.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A person who is proposed on the list of a political party or political alliance and accepts the candidacy, cannot claim to be independent, BEC argued, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/hotnews.ro\/presedintele-klaus-iohannis-nu-poate-candida-ca-independent-pe-listele-pnl-a-decis-bec-1800988?mc_cid=62eaedc66c&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hotnews.ro<\/a>. As a consequence, president Iohannis should step down from his post before the end of his term if he seeks to run in the parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>President Klaus Iohannis avoided explicitly rejecting plans to run in the parliamentary elections, but about a controversial amendment sketched by the Liberals for smoothing his candidacy, he rejected the scenario as &#8220;it would be a law for one person.&#8221; At that time, however, it was clear that the senior ruling Social Democratic Party did not support the Liberals&#8217; amendment.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Alex Nicodim)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian president Klaus Iohannis can not run as an independent candidate on the parliamentary lists of the Liberal Party (PNL), the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) in Romania ruled, answering a clarification request filed by the PNL. It is one of the episodes related to president Iohannis&#8217;s parliamentary candidacy, a process that risks damaging the Liberal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}