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| THE OPPOSITION TABLES MOTION OF CENSURE 22/09/09 |
| (2009-09-22) |
| Last updated: 2009-09-23 15:47 EET |
On the one hand, they decided to notify the Constitutional Court on two of the bills on which the government has taken responsibility before Parliament, namely those on education and the restructuring of governmental agencies.
According to the Liberals, the provisions that force public sector employees into unpaid leave and prohibit the employment of pensioners are unconstitutional, while the criteria for employee dismissal are discriminating. On the other hand, the opposition tabled a motion of censure as regards the bill on the single salary system for public sector employees. The text of the no-confidence motion was read out in Parliament Monday and will be subject to voting in a joint meeting of the chambers on Thursday.
The two opposition parties, which were jointly in power until last December, claim the Emil Boc government is the worst Cabinet Romania has had, and one which works on the principle “Better work less and poorly, than work in vain.” According to the opposition, by rushing this bill through Parliament in a vote of confidence, the Government has overlooked the social solidarity principle and promoted discrimination between various categories of state employees. Liberal Deputy Eugen Nicolaescu, a former minister of public health, says:
“The law on the single salary system in the public sector does not change the logic of the system, but merely beautifies and furthers it. Public administration remains oversized, bureaucracy and inefficiency are preserved, the state continues to work for the interests of a few, rather than the interests of the many.”
In order to pass, the motion needs 236 votes. But the Liberal Party and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania only hold 121 seats in Parliament, and the Social Democratic Party, on whose defection they had been relying, made it clear that in spite of the constant squabbling with their ruling partners, they would not back the motion.
The Social Democrats see the move as useless, given that the single salary law can be amended in the next six months. And, going through the motions of responsible politics, they claim a political crisis generated by the fall of the government would only deepen the country’s economic problems. So the motion of censure will very likely prove to be “work in vain.”
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