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| CENSURE MOTION 13/10/2009 |
| (2009-10-13) |
| Last updated: 2009-10-14 13:08 EET |
To ease out the government 236 votes were necessary out of the total of votes cast by 471 MPs: the motion gathered 258 votes in favor and 176 against. A by now commonplace paradox in Romanian politics, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania prompted a lot of suspense over their vote as their stance was a last-gasp one, given that they were among the authors of the censure motion.
No less crucial were the votes cast by Social Democrat senators and deputies; having recently left the government, they completely turned the table against the government, happy that the text of the censure motion did not mention anything about the performance of the Social Democratic Party as a ruling party from December 2008 until September 2009, and focused only on the 11 Liberal Democrat ministers who had temporarily taken over left-wing ministerial portfolios.
Living up to both stylistic and political demands of the entire Opposition, the text has accused the Liberal Democrats of causing political instability, impoverishing the population and above all, cooking an electoral fraud in favor of Romania’s incumbent president Traian Basescu at the presidential election due on November 22nd and December 6th, respectively. Last month, thanks to the support of more than 70 % of MPs, half of which was provided by the Social Democrats, the Government had an easy time surviving another no-confidence vote following a censure motion introduced by the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania. Today the Government had a slim 35% backing in Parliament provided by the Liberal Democrats, and the fated outcome was just as predictable.
Once the political warfare had its quick outcome, a procedural joust is about to follow. The Boc government starts a new 45-day interim term, which means they will have to organize the first round of the presidential election, but it will no longer be entitled to issue emergency ordinances, actually what analysts usually term as the “most favored legislating procedure so far.” Adamant in voicing their wish to further embody the tough core of Power, the Liberal Democrats have already announced they will come up to Parliament with a new government. This time the Liberals’ counteroffer backed by the Social Democrats is a government made up of politically neutral technocrats and hence prospective impartial arbiters of the presidential election.
Whatever the outcome, though, analysts have warned that, against the backdrop of a deep-going economic and social crisis, with a growing unemployment rate, with a national currency in free fall and with the unions taking to the streets, the only thing we can be sure of regarding the election will be a record low turn out. Which translates into the population’s utter contempt for an incompetent and cynical political class. Concerned only with its own petty games, this political class has proved to be completely forgetful of the needs of the electorate they claim they represent.
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