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Democratic Liberals decide to abstain from voting on motion of censure
The Liberal Democratic Party (PDL, senior rule) has decided at is meeting of the steering committee on Sunday evening to secure a working quorum for the debate of the motion of censure, but to abstain from voting, many of the PDL leaders saying that this measure was agreed also by the other parties in the governing coalition. The first Vice President of PDL, Theodor Stolojan, said that in the day of the motion, PDL MPs would do 'what the coalition decided them to do.' 'This means that the MPs - both the PDL MPs as well as the others - will be present, but they are not going to put their ballot in the box, because that way you do not have stories that some people voted against their party. In this way, opposition will see exactly how many votes it can count on, 'said Stolojan. Elena Udrea also said that Democratic Liberals are 'very confident' about their coalition partners, who agreed to abstain from voting too. 'We are a solid coalition. I discussed with our coalition partners. There is no problem from their viewpoint with what it was decided, nor from our viewpoint,' Udrea said.
PNL leader thinks a lot of time was spent with building parliamentary majority
President of the National Liberal Party (PNL, in opposition), Crin Antonescu, said that a lot of time was spent with building a new parliamentary majority.He also stated on Monday, after the meeting of the steering committee of the PNL, that Liberal MPs who will not come to vote on the motion of censure will be 'forced' to leave the party.Crin Antonescu reiterated that the PNL members will vote in favour of the motion.'When I will change my prediction, I will let you know, said the Liberal leader, asked whether he changed his prediction of 45 percent chances existing for the motion to be adopted or not.
Bela Marko: UDMR parliamentarians to abstain from voting on censure motion
Chairman of the ruling Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Bela Marko said on Monday that the UDMR parliamentarians would attend the joint meeting of Parliament, but that they would abstain from voting on the censure motion. 'We have talked about the censure motion, which, as examined by my colleagues, is an entirely political document, with no very concrete contents. We have decided not to support the censure motion. The UDMR groups in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will not support the censure motion and, as it is a political document, our answer is a political one too: we shall attend the debates, but we shall not vote, we shall not cast our votes,' said the UDMR leader after the joint meeting of the two groups of the Union's parliamentarians. The UDMR leader concluded that the censure motion would not be approved by Parliament and added that the opposition did not offer alternatives as programmes are concerned.'If somebody convinced me that there were no other solutions, no other ways to what this Government does, no other settlements of the economic situation, then it goes without saying that we would be worried, but so far we have frankly seen no such alternative,' said Bela Marko.