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Tensions mounted and, on May 14, 1864, Cuza carried out a coup d ' état, coinciding with the moment when Conservatives imposed a censure vote.

Kogălniceanu read in Parliament the monarch's decision to dissolve it, after which Cuza introduced a new constitution, titled Statutul dezvoltător al Convenţiei de la Paris (" Statute Expanding the Paris Convention ").

Together with a law virtually establishing a system of universal male suffrage, it was submitted to the 1864 plebiscite, gaining support from 682, 621 voters out of 754, 148.