President Traian Basescu filed on Wednesday an official compliant against Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu at the Bucharest 1st District Court. The head of state demands 50,000 RON as civil compensations (some 16,000 euros), after Nicolaescu said "(Basescu) suffers from several problems, some of them being in the category of mental illness".
The two will see each other in court for the first time on September 11.
In the complaint, Traian Basescu shows that he suffered a moral prejudice by having the right to honor and reputation impeached by Nicolaescu's statements.
Basescu also asks for the defendant to pay the publishing of the court's decision in two central newspapers, on the same space and with the same characters as the articles wrote after Nicolaescu's outburst.
