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| The Romanian Government and assuming responsibility 12/04/2011 |
| (2011-04-12) |
| Last updated: 2011-04-13 15:55 EET |
On Monday, the Parliament’s Standing Bureaux decided to schedule the meeting in which the Government would assume responsibility for the Social Dialogue Code and teachers' salaries bills on April 18th. This is the seventh time that the ruling coalition, made up of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and the National Union for the Progress of Romania, assumes responsibility to pass a bill through Parliament.
The Government says the measure is needed to speed up the process of finalizing labor legislation. Vice president of the Liberal Democrats Ioan Oltean admits that the fragile pro-government majority played a major part towards adopting that solution.
“The opposition is showing a lack of maturity and communication like never before seen in post-Revolution Romanian Parliament. The parliamentary majority is somewhat fragile and the ruling coalition partners have agreed to make use of this process in order to have the two bills passed by Parliament.”
Rallied within the Social-Liberal Union, the opposition will not be using a no-confidence motion to fight back. The Union, however, has announced it will resort to criminal complaints and will boycott the parliamentary session, where the government will take responsibility so that it may not grant legitimacy to an undertaking they consider to be unconstitutional. President of the Senate, Social Democrat Mircea Geoana, claims that:
“Modifying essential components of the Romanian society’s functioning, by abusively assuming responsibility, is totally unacceptable. I believe this is a systematic and brutal attack against the rule of law, against the essence of Romanian democracy, as well as social protection and dialogue, which are constitutional rights.”
Geoana's opinion is shared by his party's liberal and conservative partners, as well as by the Institute for Public Policies, an NGO formerly regarded as a supporter of the government. The Institute condemns what it calls an “outrageous intrusion” by the Government into Parliament’s activity, calling on PM Emil Boc to cease the abusive practice of assuming responsibility for key draft laws.
According to the Institute for Public Policies, the way the Civil Code, the Criminal Code, the national education law, the law on the single payment scheme for employees in the public sector were passed through Parliament’s vote of confidence are only a few examples of how the Boc Cabinet completely disregards Parliament, the country's only law-making body according to the Constitution. The Institute also noted that assuming responsibility prevents those affected by the measures from having their say in a democratic way.
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