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Romanian Lawmakers Vote On Opposition’s No-Confidence Motion Tuesday

Romanian lawmakers met in plenary session Tuesday to debate and vote on a no-confidence motion submitted by the opposition last week, seeking to overthrow the country’s minority government less than two months ahead of presidential elections due on November 22.
Romanian Lawmakers Vote On Opposition’s No-Confidence Motion Tuesday
13 oct. 2009, 10:51, English

The motion was initiated by 123 lawmakers of the Liberal, Hungarian minority and Social Democratic parties.

The motion needs 236 votes to pass, and the meeting is attended by 432 out of 471 lawmakers. The opposition has a total 279 lawmakers.

The Parliament’s standing offices decided debates on the motion will take three and a half hours.

The motion was read out in a plenary Parliament meeting last Thursday, when democrat liberals left the meeting in protest arguing the submission of a motion was unconstitutional. However, the Constitutional Court said Monday that ruling on the legitimacy of no-confidence motions does not fall in its attributions and rejected the democrat liberals’ claim as inadmissible.