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The Institution of Presidential Impeachmnet In THE INSTITUTION OF PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT IN SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS -CASE STUDY OF ROMANIA- By Valentina-Andreea Dimulescu Submitted to Central European University Department of Political Science In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Political Science Supervisor: Professor Nenad Dimitrijevic CEU eTD Collection Budapest, Hungary 2009 i ABSTRACT The present paper examines the institution of presidential impeachment in countries displaying a semi-presidential institutional design. More specifically, it addresses the question whether the functioning of impeachment can be attributed to the particular institutional arrangement mirrored in the specific interactions between the state actors involved – the president, parliament and PM – or by non-institutional factors such as the president’s actions throughout his/her tenure which can be considered as having violated the constitutional text. The methodology used is the case study of the 2007 Romanian presidential impeachment against Traian Băsescu. The principal finding is that it is difficult to point to a clear, mono- causal relationship between the tensions caused by semi-presidentialism and the practice of impeachment since the impeachment of the head of state is not a common practice in countries that display semi-presidential features. The Romanian case represents a situation where the ambiguity of the constitutional text permitted the parliamentary majority to sanction the President, whose self-proclaimed active role in the political system was supported by the Romanian Constitutional Court and by the citizens who participated in the referendum on his dismissal. CEU eTD Collection ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank Professor Nenad Dimitrijevic for the valuable guidance offered throughout the elaboration of the present paper. We express our gratitude to Professor Algis Krupavicius, Professor Carsten Schneider, Professor Ioan Stanomir, Irina Ionescu, Sergiu Gherghina and Stela Garaz for their important advice regarding the topic and the research strategies. Also, we would like to thank Mihail Chiru for his support. CEU eTD Collection iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT.........................................................................................................................II ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................. III TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................. IV LIST OF TABLES...............................................................................................................V LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS............................................................................................ VI INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................1 CHAPTER 1: BASIC CONCEPTS .....................................................................................9 1.1. A DEFINITION OF IMPEACHMENT....................................................................................9 1.2. A DEFINITION OF SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM.....................................................................12 1.3. FRENCH SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM..................................................................................17 CHAPTER 2: ROMANIAN SEMI-PRESIDENTIALISM...............................................19 2.1. CONSTITUTION-DRAFTING CONTEXT............................................................................19 2.2. THE 1991 CONSTITUTION ............................................................................................23 2.3. A CONTESTED PRESIDENTIAL INSTITUTION ...................................................................25 2.4. FAULTY SEPARATION OF POWERS.................................................................................27 2.5. CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE MAJOR POLITICAL ACTORS....................28 2.5.1 The President .......................................................................................................32 2.5.2. The PM and the Government...............................................................................36 2.5.3. The Parliament....................................................................................................40 2.6. THE NATURE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESIDENT ........................................................................................................................41 2.7. THE 1994 SUSPENSION CASE AGAINST PRESIDENT ION ILIESCU.....................................43 CHAPTER 3: THE 2007 SUSPENSION CASE................................................................46 3.1. THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND .....................................................................................46 3.2. THE SUSPENSION PROCEDURE......................................................................................47 3.2.1. The Voiculescu Investigation Commission...........................................................47 3.3. “THE 322” ..................................................................................................................53 3.4. CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME DURING THE GAME...............................................55 3.5. THE REFERENDUM.......................................................................................................60 3.6. CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT..............................................................63 3.6.1. The President-Parliament relationship................................................................64 3.6.2. The President-Government relationship ..............................................................70 3.6.3. The President-judiciary relationship ...................................................................71 3.6.4. The President’s mediation function and his role in matters of foreign policy .......72 CEU eTD Collection 3.7. CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................74 CONCLUDING REMARKS..............................................................................................76 BIBLIOGRAPHY...............................................................................................................81 iv LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Romanian Presidents and PMs (1990-2009) 40 Table 2: Types of parliamentary majorities and presidents (1990-2008) 43 CEU eTD Collection v LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS FSN National Salvation Front PCUN Provisional Council for National Unity CDR Romanian Democratic Convention PNğ-CD Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party PD The Democratic Party PNL The National Liberal Party PSD The Social Democratic Party PD-L Democratic Liberal Party PLD Liberal Democratic Party UDMR Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania PRM Greater Romania Party PC The Conservative Party PDSR The Party for Social Democracy in Romania PAC The Civic Alliance Party PSDR The Romanian Social Democratic Party PER The Romanian Ecological Party PL’93 The Liberal Party 1993 PUNR The Romanian National Unity Party PSM The Socialist Labour Party PDAR Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania AlianĠa D.A. Justice and Truth Alliance C.S.M. Superior Council of Magistracy SRI Romanian Intelligence Service SIE Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service CSAT Supreme Defence Council CNI National Intelligence Community ECHR European Court of Human Rights CEU eTD Collection vi INTRODUCTION Topic The topic of the present research is the institution of presidential impeachment in semi-presidential systems. The purpose is to offer an examination of the place of presidential impeachment in the institutional setup, thus its role in the constitutional document and the dynamic between the different state institutions when deciding to use it against the persona of the president. Specific problem The present paper’s unit of analysis is the institution of presidential impeachment in semi-presidential systems. More specifically, this study examines whether the functioning of the institution of impeachment can be accounted for by looking at the particular institutional setup, i.e. the specific interactions between the state actors involved – the president, parliament and PM – or by non-institutional factors such as the president’s actions throughout his/her tenure which can be considered as having violated the constitution. In tackling this subject, the 2007 Romanian suspension case will serve as a case study. Puzzle The puzzling aspect about the Romanian case stems from the fact that there have been two suspension procedures initiated by Parliament in a time span of 17 years after the 1989 CEU eTD Collection Revolution. The first suspension procedure was unsuccessful and occurred in 1994 against Ion Iliescu on the grounds of violating the separation of powers principle through a political statement considered to have curtailed the judiciary’s independence. The second suspension procedure received the necessary votes in the legislature to take effect and acting President 1 Traian Băsescu was suspended for 30 days until the organization for a national referendum on his dismissal. The grounds for his suspension were numerous and targeted his relationship with Parliament, Government, the judiciary and the presidency’s own powers and duties. It is important to note a special feature of the Romanian Constitution relating to the presidential impeachment procedure,
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