Romania’s Parliament Rejects Setting Up Of Constitution Revision Committee

According to Tariceanu, liberal and social democrat lawmakers voted against the proposition made by democrat liberals to set up a committee to revise the country's Constitution.

Romania's Chamber of Deputies Speaker Roberta Anastase said last week she would summon the Parliament's standing offices to discuss the setting up of committee for the revision of the Constitution.

Anastase's decision came after Prime Minister Emil Boc urged the opposition social democrat and liberal leaders to state whether or not they are in favor of making the country's Parliament single-chamber and cutting the number of lawmakers to maximum 300 from the current 471.

Boc has called on social democrat former head Geoana and liberal head Crin Antonescu to make public their standpoint on the matter, stressing the social democrats and liberals in opposition are deliberately stalling debates on the issue.

Boc said Geoana and Antonescu should agree immediately with the setting up of a committee to revise the country's Constitution, adding a referendum must be held this year to make sure the country will have a single-chamber Parliament and only 300 lawmakers in 2012.

Romanians were polled in a national referendum on November 21, 2009 and the majority voted to make the country's Parliament single-chamber and reduce the number of lawmakers to maximum 300 from the current 471.

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