Romanian Opp Liberals Challenge 2011 State Budget Law At Constitutional Court

The party said in a press release that the Government breached several articles of the Constitution. Under the law, the Executive must send the draft state budget law to parliament by October 15. The draft 2011 state budget was sent to parliament about two months later, namely on December 6, 2010, which affected debates and limited lawmakers' prerogatives, according to liberals.

The party argues that the 2011 state budget was built upon inexistent laws, even if the Constitution states no budget expenses can be approved without identifying financial sources first.

Liberal deputy Eugen Nicolescu said the wage laws, the unitary pension law and the education law had not yet been adopted when the draft state budget was forwarded to the Parliament.

Lawmakers adopted Wednesday the state budget for 2011, with 207 votes for, 143 votes against and no abstentions.

The Romanian Social Democratic Party on Thursday challenged the unitary wage law at the Constitutional Court, after the opposition's no-confidence motion over the normative act was rejected in Parliament.

Opposition liberals have also notified the Constitutional Court on the Government's confidence-vote procedures to push the 2011 wage bill and the unitary wage bill through Parliament. The Court will examine the notification on December 28.

The education law, for which the Government sought lawmakers' confidence vote in October, was also challenged with the Court, which postponed the ruling for December 28.

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