BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A senior Romanian lawmaker accused President Klaus Iohannis of seeking to hijack this month's European Parliament elections in the country by calling a referendum on the same day on the ruling coalition's contested judicial plans.
Iohannis, a strong critic of the Social Democrat-led coalition, wants Romanians to vote in the May 26 referendum against government plans to potentially weaken anti-corruption legislation further via emergency decrees.
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