PD-L reads out motion of censure in Parliament before PM Tariceanu

Treasurer of the Chamber of Deputies Gheorghe Albu of the opposition Democratic-Liberal Party (PD-L) read out in a plenary session of Parliament on Tuesday the motion of censure tabled by the PD-L, in the presence of Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.

The motion, called ‘Education Stays, Government Goes!’ was tabled in response to a Government emergency ordinance passed by Government to cancel the provisions in a law approved by Parliament to increase by 50 percent teachers’ pay.

‘The Tariceanu Government has to be dismissed, because it is flagrantly breaching the constitutional rules. The law that the Government refuses to enforce now was unanimously passed by the Romanian Parliament, which is the sole rightful holder of national sovereignty. In its attempt to oppose the enforcement of this law, the Government sent the document to the Constitutional Court, which found it as conforming to the Constitution. And even after Romania’s President promulgated it, Prime Minister Tariceanu has chosen not to implement it. Thus, the Tariceanu Cabinet puts itself outside the law because, as Romania’s Constitution says, nobody is above law,’ says the motion.

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Bogdan Olteanu mentioned that two MPs withdrew their supporting signatures, but the document still has the number of signature required for consideration.

Before the plenary session of Parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Tariceanu voiced worry that the Legislative will pass the law rejecting the emergency ordinance cancelling the teachers’ pay increase.

‘We are waiting to see what is happening. Perhaps the Senate will give it another thought and seriously analyses the signals coming from the economy and the European Union. The Senate cannot remain insensitive to the messages coming from the country: enterprises compelled to lay off workers and shrinking business activities. Otherwise, such a measure cannot but run contrary to any logical thinking,’ said Tariceanu.

He reused to estimate the chances of the PD-L motion of censure being successful, but argued that the action of the PD-L is ‘pure politicking, as PD-L has shown us over the past two years.’ AGERPRES