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Parliament: PSD's motion of censure, debated and voted on Monday
The Parliament meets on Monday, at 14.00, on the last day of the extraordinary session, in a joint sitting, to debate and vote on the motion of censure initiated by PSD and entitled "PNL Government, from pandemic to generalized pandemic. Abundance in the pockets of the PNL clientele, poverty in the pockets of the Romanians ".
Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman Marcel Ciolacu says he expects the Social Democrats' partners to vote for the censure motion and that the statements on certain arrangements "don't count as votes."
"The PSD MPs will vote tomorrow for the censure motion! The Orban Government must leave, it has already caused too much damage. I expect our partners be serious as well and their MPs vote for the dismissal of this government. The statements concerning arrangements or occult deals are not serious and do not count as votes," Ciolacu wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) will vote the censure motion "with two hands", with the regret it didn't come earlier, "probably from the desire not to make the medical situation in the country more difficult," ALDE Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu wrote on Sunday on Facebook.
"We, those at ALDE, will vote the motion with two hands! We will vote with the regret that it didn't come earlier, probably from the desire not to make the medical situation in the country more difficult. With or without medical crisis, this government must leave, as anyhow, it is not concerned with the medical crisis, not to speak of the economic crisis. For them, everything is a reason of campaign and getting their pockets filled from fishy contracts," Tariceanu said in his post.
În turn, National Liberal Party (PNL) Deputies' leader Florin Roman has announced that the parliamentary group he is running will not participate in the voting on the censure motion. "The PNL Deputies' group will not participate in the voting on the censure motion, which the PSD [Social Democratic Party] turned into a ball of lies. The PSD motion should have been called: PSD wants to set Romania on fire, in full pandemic," Roman wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
He has added that the PSD gesture of filing a censure motion in the current circumstances is "deeply irresponsible." "Given that Romania is fighting the pandemic and we are only a few weeks away from the local and parliamentary elections, PSD's gesture is not only unconstitutional, but also deeply irresponsible. After leaving Romania with no medicine stocks, with 'zero' stocks, the PSD has been constantly fighting for the sabotage of the Government. They have complained that the measures taken by the Government are too harsh, they have asked for more and more relaxation, and the result is that we have reached an average of over 1,200 cases a day. They left the Government without the possibility of legal action and thus the number of serious cases in ICUs exploded," Deputy Florin Roman added. According to him, the PSD wants to generate a political crisis and "throw Romania into chaos only for party interests".
Save Romania Union (USR) MPs will not participate in the voting on the censure motion on Monday, USR Chairman Dan Barna announced on Sunday. He believes the Social Democratic Party's (PSD) initiative is an attempt "to create a political crisis three months before the parliamentary elections."
"Romania doesn't need the PSD circus. USR will not participate in the voting on the censure motion. The PSD attempt to create a political crisis three months before on term elections is a proof of irresponsibility that we don't intend to encourage in any way," Barna showed in a message posted on Facebook on Sunday.
In the same message, Barna mentions that "the argument for the installation of the current government was that the country needed a full-fledged government to fight the pandemic and the crisis it generated." He says he will have an intervention in Parliament on Monday, but the USR MPs will not participate in the voting. "Tomorrow I will be in Parliament to publicly state these truths from the platform, but we will not participate in the voting on a motion playing with Romania's fate, irresponsibly invented by the PSD only as an entertainment programme for the guests to the recently concluded congress," Barna said.
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Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Romania Leonardo Badea is one of the picks considered by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) for prime minister if the censure motion against the incumbent government succeeds, according to PSD national chairman Marcel Ciolacu.
"He is one of the options considered at the moment and he is a man who deserves to have this proposal," Ciolacu told Antena 3 private broadcaster on Sunday evening. He said President Iohannis had "made a big mistake" at the start of the health crisis by failing to come up with a proposal for a national union government.
"Romania would have looked completely different now. (...) There were all the political forces involved in this effort, not just the PSD and the National Liberal Party (PNL); it would have been another much more coherent communication and I am sure that that government would not have moved away from the Romanians' agenda. He made a major mistake. A president back then should have placed the interest of the Romanians above the interest of the PNL and only the political agenda of the PNL," added Ciolacu.