At 15:30 the Council of Ministers met. Petru Groza announced the act of abdication and a government proclamation was issued to the country. It announced the abdication of the King and stated that "Thus, the Romanian people gained the freedom to build a new form of state - the People's Republic". At 19:10, under the chairmanship of Mihail Sadoveanu, the extraordinary session of the Assembly of Deputies opened [95]. Two bills were unanimously approved. The first took note of the abdication of King Michael I, for himself and his descendants, the Romanian Constitution was abrogated, and the new official name of the state became the Romanian People's Republic. It also specified that legislative power would be exercised by the Assembly of Deputies until its dissolution and the convening of a National Constituent Assembly, which would take place on a date set by the Assembly of Deputies. This will adopt the new Constitution of the RPR. The second draft appointed the members of the Provisional Presidium of the RPR: Constantin Ioan Parhon, President, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ștefan Voitec, Gheorghe Stere and Ioan Niculi, Vice-Presidents. The meeting ended after only one hour