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Government's priority: public procurement law, public pay law and the 2016 national budget
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday asked the ruling coalition MPs for support to pass three draft laws that are the Government's priority in the current parliamentary session.
"There are three important bills that we must work on together - the Government comes up with the proposal, you analyse it - namely: the law package on public procurement, the public employees' pay law and the 2016 national budget. (...) I want to salute Liviu's [Dragnea - Social Democrat Party interim chairman] idea, which is very correct - the more we can adopt these laws by political consensus, the more stable in time these will be. It is one thing if we, the majority, adopt them, then they go to the President, the President re-sends them [to Parliament], a political scandal ensues and no one understands anything," the prime minister said at a meeting of the ruling coalition MPs' groups, hosted by Parliament Palace.
Ponta said that the ministers "must come to the parliamentary groups' meetings, both in the Chamber and the Senate, to the committees' meetings, as often as possible to the plenary sessions to support their points of view on projects making the object of their concern."
At the same time, he asked for "legislative support" mostly from senators in regards to projects referring to the Republic of Moldova, ahead of a September 22 joint meeting of the Romanian and the Moldovan governments.
"I shall ask for legislative support when needed, in regards to the projects with the Republic of Moldova. On 22, we have a joint meeting. The Senate is a decision-making chamber for certain collaboration projects," Ponta told the ruling coalition's senators.