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Members of the far-rightist Greater Romania Party (PRM) called on the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) and the leftist opposition Social-Democratic Party (PSD) to submit a no-confidence motion to oust the government over wage hike issues, PRM’s secretary general Gheorghe Funar told a press conference Friday.

Romanian deputies’ votes for a 50% wage raise for staff in the education system is a mere “populist” measure before the upcoming general elections, the country’s Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the 2008-2009 university year organized by the Technical University of Civil Engineering in Bucharest.