Romanian PM Says No-Confidence Motion Criticizes Oppositions’ Former Govt

The prime minister said opposition liberals and the Hungarian minority party seem not to have noticed that the wage law promoted by his Cabinet is based on the very propositions of the former government formed of liberals and the Hungarian minority.

Boc also said the government considered the observations of social partners in drafting the unitary pay law, but the government couldn’t accept all the amendments proposed because the country doesn’t have enough money.

The Parliament votes Thursday on a no-confidence motion submitted by liberals and the Hungarian minority party, in opposition, to bring down the coalition government of democrat liberals and social democrats over the adoption of the unitary pay law for the public sector.

The motion needs at least 236 votes to pass, but social democrats and democrat liberals, part of the country’s ruling coalition, said they will not cast their votes.

On September 15, the prime minister asked the Parliament for a confidence vote on the adoption of the unitary pay law regulating wages across the public sector. The opposition, which has a total 121 lawmakers, called for a no-confidence vote, which would overthrow the government if upheld. If the Parliament votes against the opposition’s action, the unitary pay law presented by the government is considered enacted.