Romanian Constitutional Court Declares Opposition’s No-Confidence Motion Constitutional

The court on Monday stressed that ruling on the legitimacy of no-confidence motions does not fall in its attributions and rejected the democrat liberals' notification as inadmissible.

Opposition liberals and the Hungarian minority party, backed by some social democrats, who left the coalition government last week, submitted Tuesday a no-confidence motion to overthrow Prime Minister Emil Boc's minority democrat liberal government.

Democrat liberals argued the motion is illegal because the Constitution forbids the submission of a second no-confidence motion, during the same parliamentary session and by the same signatories if the first motion has been rejected.

The opposition argued the constitutional ban applies for two consecutive no-confidence motions that are not initiated in response to the government's request for a confidence vote to enact laws.

The opposition needs 236 votes for its no-confidence motion to pass and liberals, the Hungarian minority party and social democrats have a total 281 lawmakers. The ruling Democratic Liberal Party has 170 lawmakers and 18 others representing national minorities, who will vote in favor of the Government.

The Parliament's standing offices decided the opposition's no-confidence motion would be voted in a plenary session Tuesday, October 13.

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