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Although it has a majority in the Senate, the PSD is unable to convene the Permanent Office to debate the law that establishes that Parliament is the one who decides the date of parliamentary elections. We remind you that the law that allowed Parliament to decide the date of the elections was supported by PSD, which wanted to postpone the December 6 elections to spring 2021. However, PSD changed its option.
For two days, the meeting of the Permanent Senate Office could not be held due to lack of a quorum. The PSD called for a meeting of the Senate leadership on Monday, but it failed, after a PSD senator (Ion Ganea) and a UDMR (Tzancos Barna) failed to appear at the meeting. The agenda for the session included a revision of the law that gave Parliament the right to set a date for parliamentary elections.
The PSD reconvened the meeting of the Permanent Office for Tuesday, at 1:00 p.m. This time, the meeting was supposed to take place online, but the situation was repeated. The same two senators were not present.
Parliamentary sources told HotNews.ro that the PSD abandoned the plan to postpone the parliamentary elections to March 2021, and the situation in the Senate, in which the Permanent Bureau cannot meet to discuss the request for re-examination, is generated by the wish. Leadership PSD.
We remind you that the law on some measures for the organization of elections for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies and that establishes that it is the Legislative who decides the date of the election was approved in July 2020.
President Klaus Iohannis has publicly announced that he does not agree with the postponement of the parliamentary elections. At the same time, the president and NLP will use to the maximum all the levers they have to delay the entry into force of the law.
Hotnews.ro explained why the president’s approach postpones enforcement of the law and brings it to a date when it can no longer be enforced.
