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| The Romanian Political Scene in an Electoral Year |
| (2012-03-15) |
| Last updated: 2012-03-16 13:20 EET |
The opposition in Romania, making up the Social Liberal Union has been on parliamentary strike since February, but is now showing willingness to resume political dialogue with the current regime. The two parties’ readiness to engage in dialogue seems to finally meet the agenda of the Social Liberal Union in Romania, formed by the Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
It also may agree with the agenda of the ruling coalition, made up of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Union for the Progress of Romania and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania. Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu has recently had a phone conversation with one of the opposition’s leaders, Victor Ponta, in a move which has prompted belief that parliament’s activity will resume. However, Ponta has said that the opposition will not give up the parliamentary boycott until its requests are met.
The Social Liberal Union is calling on the Prime Minister to publicly commit that he will not make use of the call for a confidence vote nor of emergency ordinances, considering that, the opposition claims, the former government, led by Emil Boc, had excessively resorted to them. The Social Liberal Union claims that the parliamentary debate has been dodged, due to the previous cabinet’s repeated confidence votes. The latter are procedural shortcuts allowing for the rapid adoption of a law, without changes. This fiercely criticized measure has driven a set of important drafts into law. This includes the Education Law, the Healthcare Law and the New Labor Code.
The opposition also wants to re-discuss the change in the regulation whereby the Union for the National Union for the Progress of Romania was acknowledged as a parliamentary group. The frontline of the National Union for the Progress of Romania, which Victor Ponta ironically calls the “party which has never run for elections’’, is made up of former opposition MPs who have joined the regime’s ranks. Their contribution has significantly helped the ruling coalition retain parliamentary majority.
However, the most important of the Social Liberal Union’s wishes (and equally the hardest to fulfill) is the replacement of the President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, Roberta Anastase. She is accused of voluntarily passing the Pension law in Parliament, in September of last year, after incorrectly counting the votes of members of the Liberal Democratic Party, the National Union for the Progress of Romania and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania.
The opposition termed the move as parliamentary fraud. Turned into a bone of contention for the two sides, the dismissal of Roberta Anastase does not even seem negotiable for the Liberal Democratic Party, whose leaders have implied that they are not willing to give up the person who fills the third position in line to the state’s leadership. Considering the circumstances, analysts doubt that the Ungureanu-Ponta phone conversation will actually bear fruit.
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