In the midst of the scandal surrounding the law tailored for Klaus Iohannis, the president is leaving for the UN assembly in New York on the same luxurious private plane, with which he has flown twice this year to the United States.
The information comes from Boarding Pass: „IN BRIEF: the President of Romania will undertake an official visit to the United States starting on September 24, 2024.
He began his journey on Monday from Constanța and will fly non-stop to New York (USA) for about nine hours, with a Gulfstream G550 private jet operated by Global Jet Luxembourg.
The plane will be the same one the president flew on in May and July 2024 to Washington DC (USA) and in August 2024 to Chișinău (Republic of Moldova).
Additionally, in 2023, the same plane was chartered for the president's official trips to the United Arab Emirates (March 2023), for the "African tour" in Kenya, Tanzania, Cape Verde, and Senegal (November 2023), and also in April 2024 to South Korea."
President Klaus Iohannis continues to refuse to inform the public about the costs of his foreign trips, a subject that has been at the center of debates over time.
Now, Iohannis has only two months left in his term and is at the center of a scandal after the National Liberal Party submitted a bill containing a single amendment that gives Klaus Iohannis the opportunity to run as an independent on the PNL list in the parliamentary elections, even though he is still in office and has no intention of resigning.
There is time pressure. The deadline for submitting the lists of candidates for the parliamentary elections is October 17, so the law needs to be approved quickly, and it is an organic law. Therefore, an absolute majority of votes is needed to pass it in Parliament (50%+1 of the total number of parliamentarians). Without the votes of the social democrats (PSD), this cannot be achieved. Today, PSD decided not to vote for this project.
Earlier today, the Liberals also notified the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) to pronounce on this amendment following the opinion expressed by the Legislative Council, stating that they will not put the debate on the Senate's agenda until they receive a response from the BEC.