Romanian Senate Headship OKs Setup Of Committee To Check Transp Min Activity

The future committee will have 11 members, compared with the initial proposition for nine members.

Parliamentary group leaders will decide after the standing office meeting on the representatives of parliamentary parties in the future committee.

The representatives of the group of independent lawmakers, upheld by the ruling Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), said they are a parliamentary group and thus entitled to have people representing them in the future inquiry committee, while opposing social democrats and liberals said the structure of the future committee must be in line with the political algorithm resulted after elections, whereby independent lawmakers are not entitled to representation.

The proposition to set up an inquiry committee, its structure and the potential inclusion of independent lawmakers in the committee will be put up for vote in the Senate’s plenary meeting.

The future committee will investigate the legitimacy of contracts concluded by the ministry, namely, subsequent changes in their value following alterations in the initial technical solutions, for the projects unfolded by the ministry and the country’s public roads authority CNADNR during 2005-2009.

Social democrats proposed to include senator Marius Bota, who came up with the proposition, and senators Dan Sova and Cosmin Nicula in the inquiry committee.