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Although Marcel Ciolacu’s maneuver yesterday gave Romanians hope, things are not exactly as the PSD leader presented them.
After the scandal in the Romanian Parliament about the abolition of special pensions, a project blocked by the PSD, Marcel Ciolacul arrives with a message and says: I will immediately convene the Joint Permanent Bureaux to eliminate special pensions for parliamentarians, as long as this money is used to DOUBLE ASSIGNMENTS! This means that NLP and USR must not urgently stop and unblock the activity of the Senate. Until then, everything I do is called cheap, lying populism! Marcel Ciolacu wrote on Facebook.
The scandal broke on November 23
We reconvened the Permanent Senate in an attempt to persuade our colleagues to come to work. Colleagues from PNL and USR are missing for a month, blocking the Senate. Today we have on the agenda an extremely important law, awaited by millions of Romanians, namely the law on the duplication of allowances for children. As you know, with indescribable cynicism, the Orban Government, through an emergency ordinance, blocked the duplication of child allowances. President Iohannis, with the same cynicism, rejected the law by which Parliament rejected the government ordinance. Today we have on the agenda the request for reexamination of the President and, obviously, we want to reject this request to double the allocations, Senate President Robert Cazanciuc said Monday.
The initiative Without criminals in public office was adopted this summer by the Chamber of Deputies and provides for the introduction into the Constitution of the following text:
And he says that: Citizens definitively sentenced to custodial sentences for crimes committed intentionally, until the intervention of a situation that eliminates the consequences of the sentence, cannot be elected in the organs of the local public administration, in the Chamber of Deputies, in the Senate and in the position of President of Romania.
This initiative is part of the category of constitutional laws and is approved with the votes of at least 2/3 of the number of parliamentarians in each Chamber, in the case of the Senate being at least 90 senators.
Due to the boycott, the law was not approved in plenary, losing the possibility of being adopted by constitutional referendum with the parliamentary elections of December 6.
