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| PRIORITIES OF THE NEW PARLIAMENTARY SESSION (3.09.07) |
| (2007-09-03) |
| Last updated: 2007-09-04 15:20 EET |
This is perhaps the last but one session of the current legislative term. Unless a snap election is called, a new parliamentary election is anyway scheduled for the end of 2008. In the spring session, both Deputies and Senators cumulated backlog, while their image continued to erode. President Traian Basescu's suspension by a parliamentary majority built on circumstantial reasons was opposed in a referendum by three-quarters of the electorate, proof of the deepening ravine between MPs and the electorate. The Conservatives' walking out of the ruling coalition and the expulsion from Government of the ministers of the pro-presidential Democratic Party left behind a minority Government (made up of the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania) enjoying a feeble 20% backing, but which the same circumstantial majority voted for without hesitation. No wonder then that the Romanians' rate of confidence in Parliament rises to barely 10% even in the most favourable opinion polls.
Trying to improve his image, the Liberal President of the Chamber of Deputies, Bogdan Olteanu, has now come up with a long list of priorities, among which the introduction of the uninominal vote instead of the vote based on party lists, which has been used already since 1990, the removal from public functions of the remunerated activists of the former Communist Party and of the communist political police agents, environmental protection policies and the State Budget for next year. A rather comprehensive list of priorities.
“The National Liberal Party's Standing Delegation discussed the political priorities of the current session, priorities which actually complement the Government's own list of priorities. They include the introduction of the uninominal vote, the resumption of debates on a lustration draft law, a legislative package in the ecological area, including a law banning the use of cyanides and a law banning any construction projects in parks. These draft laws will be submitted or backed by the NLP in the next two months and I hope that by the end of October Parliament will have passed them. In addition to them, there are the important priorities of the Government and of the country of every year, such as the Budget Law, which we hope to see adopted in mid-October. The parliamentary session ahead of us will surely be a complicated one, as the campaign for the European Parliament elections will start in October”.
All these plans may go down the drain if the Government led by Liberal Calin Poescu Tariceanu does not survive the no-confidence motion which the Social-Democrat leader Mircea Geoana seems adamant to introduce. According to the arithmetic, the motion stands a good chance to pass. The Social Democratic Party alone has more seats in Parliament than the two ruling parties together. And if the other three parties in opposition, the Democratic Party, the Conservative Party and the Greater Romania Party, rally to the Social-Democrats' initiative, the motion would pass quite easily. However, the Social-Democrats themselves seem to be scared by their own action.
Their honorary president, former head of state Ion Iliescu, put it quite bluntly: “We will pull down the Government, that's no bid deal, but what's coming up next?”. Quite sure that President Basescu will designate a loyal Prime Minister from among the Democratic Party or will push for an early election, Iliescu has warned the Social Democratic Party that – quote - “it runs the risk of becoming again isolated”.
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