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| THE BOC GOVERNMENT TRUSTED WITH MINIMUM CONFIDENCE 16/06/2010 |
| (2010-06-16) |
| Last updated: 2010-06-17 12:36 EET |
The team of PM Emil Boc, who asked Parliament for a vote of confidence on a set of austerity measures, becoming quite unpopular as a result, has been only 8 votes away from dismissal.
The motion of censure needed 236 votes to pass, that is half plus one of the total number of senators and deputies. Only 228 votes could be gathered, but the executive’s survival is nothing short of a bitter victory. 197 MPs voted against the censure motion, which points to an alarming drop in the support given by Parliament to the Boc government.
Under the pressure of thousands of trade unionists and pensioners who were protesting at Parliament’s door, and of dozens of other trade unionists who were booing in the Parliament lobby, several MPs felt they had to migrate to another political party. They voted in favor of the censure motion, even though the PM, who defended his measures of budget deficit correction, which he called “tough but rational”, accused the opposition of demagogy.
"Unfortunately I have not had the chance to see the opposition come up with any alternative solution”.
“We are voting this censure motion on behalf of all the pensioners of Romania” retorted the leader of the Social Democrats, Victor Ponta, who recalled that no other government in EU countries, even when under pressure to pass austerity measures, dared to slash pensions.
The Liberal leader, Crin Antonescu, did not refrain from leveling sarcastic comments against the government in power, which he accuses of granting social protection to its own political clientele alone.
“Of all the expenses with state salaries, pensions and other expenses which can be easily directed to your political clientele, you chose to slash the money of those whom you cannot levy a tithe on. “
While the opposition is determined to take its last chance by attacking the set of austerity measures at the Constitutional Court, fewer politicians, who are still faithful to the government, insist that the disbursement, on June 28th, of the next payment of the loan agreement concluded with the IMF depends on passing these austerity measures.
“The Boc government stands. Pensions and salaries remain slashed” concludes the daily paper ADEVARUL. In exchange, the daily ROMANIA LIBERA writes that “although the Boc government managed to evade the censure motion filed by the opposition, the PM has less than 13 days to assure the IMF that salary and pension cuts will be applied in due time”. The same paper considers Tuesday’s events a “victory without glory” because the executive “evaded the motion but remains without a majority” and the parties making the government lost more credibility when they decided to exclude the senators and deputies who voted for the censure motion.
The daily paper GANDUL announces the imminent reshuffling by means of which the “Liberal Democratic Party wants to wash the sins of the government” and President Basescu, the de facto leader of the party, wants to get rid of several ministers fallen from grace. This reshuffling would be a must, given that ‘no other government, after December 1989, has been so hated and despised, so isolated and desperate as this one is.’
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