Initially published in http://www.romania-report.ro/ -- Aug 24, 2005
Bucharest, Aug 24 – Harsh controversies raised, today, during the Senate’s Permanent Bureau meeting as Romanian ruling coalition MPs want Parliament’s Chambers Speakers ousted. The same happened in the Lower Chamber’s rules commission.
To date, both Speakers of the Senate (Nicolae Vacaroiu) and of the Lower Chamber (Adrian Nastase) are members of the opposition Social-Democrat Party (PSD). They took office immediately after the last year general elections by the vote of the then parliamentary majority.
But since last December majority changed, as former PSD allies (the Conservative Party and the Hungarians’ ethnic party in Romania – UDMR) changed sides and joined Democrats and Liberals to form a centre-right block that provides the current Romanian Govt.
Romanian parliamentary bodies are likely to meet in extraordinary sessions at the end of August at the request of the ruling coalition MPs who look for ousting Vacaroiu and Nastase and replace them with their own representatives, able to better promote Government’s reform policies.
PSD opposition party leaders repeatedly warned they would file complaints at EU bodies and launch a parliamentary strike while accusing the majority of unconstitutional conduct.
Romania Report
Bucharest, Aug 24 – Harsh controversies raised, today, during the Senate’s Permanent Bureau meeting as Romanian ruling coalition MPs want Parliament’s Chambers Speakers ousted. The same happened in the Lower Chamber’s rules commission.
To date, both Speakers of the Senate (Nicolae Vacaroiu) and of the Lower Chamber (Adrian Nastase) are members of the opposition Social-Democrat Party (PSD). They took office immediately after the last year general elections by the vote of the then parliamentary majority.
But since last December majority changed, as former PSD allies (the Conservative Party and the Hungarians’ ethnic party in Romania – UDMR) changed sides and joined Democrats and Liberals to form a centre-right block that provides the current Romanian Govt.
Romanian parliamentary bodies are likely to meet in extraordinary sessions at the end of August at the request of the ruling coalition MPs who look for ousting Vacaroiu and Nastase and replace them with their own representatives, able to better promote Government’s reform policies.
PSD opposition party leaders repeatedly warned they would file complaints at EU bodies and launch a parliamentary strike while accusing the majority of unconstitutional conduct.
Romania Report
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