Romanian Democrat Liberals Leave Parliament Meeting On No-Confidence Motion

Democrat liberals called for the motion to be sent back to the Parliament’s legal experts, saying 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.

Lawmakers voted against the proposition and democrat liberals left the meeting, said democrat liberal deputy Mircea Toader.

The Parliament decided Wednesday the no-confidence motion would be read out in a plenary session today and voted Tuesday, October 13.

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 Boc’s minority democrat liberal government.

The government is likely to be overthrown because social democrats said they would vote for the motion. Social democrat leader and Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana said he hopes Romanians’ streak of bad luck with the current minority government will end next Tuesday, October 13.

Liberals and the Hungarian minority party submitted a no-confidence motion in September against the coalition government of democrat liberals and social democrats, but the motion was rejected.