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The Romanian government follows in the footsteps of the United States and announces it wants to move its embassy to Jerusalem. A decision not to the liking of the Romanian president and the European Union.
With our correspondent in Bucharest, Benjamin Ribout
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila has signed the transfer of her embassy to Jerusalem. Problem: the Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis, who has the right to validate or not the decision according to the Constitution, does not agree.
Viorica Dancila made the announcement this Sunday, March 24 in Washington as part of a conference of the American lobby pro-Israel Aipac also attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Currently campaigning, he had repeatedly invited Viorica Dancila to announce the transfer of the Romanian embassy in Jerusalem.
The Prime Minister spoke without the agreement of President Iohannis, who immediately declared that he did not validate the decision.
The Romanian embassy in Israel has been at the heart of an imbroglio between the government and the Romanian president for many months. The presidential party has even filed a criminal complaint against the prime minister for high treason and usurpation of office. No problem for the social-democratic government which confirms its proximity to Washington attracting the passing thunderbolts of the European Union, of which Bucharest currently holds the rotating presidency.
Since taking office at the end of 2016, the Social Democrats have clearly distanced themselves from the EU to the chagrin of the Romanian president and the population.
The United States transferred their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, just like Guatemala, while the Czech Republic announced it would do so.
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