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Tuesday’s vote in the plenary session of Parliament divided two longtime political leaders at the top of the Legislative Council. The president of the Council would be Florin Iordache, a PSD deputy and former Justice Minister, and his subordinate, USR Senator George Dircă, head of the section for the test of legislation. In the vote, the RSU candidate had the massive support of the PSD deputies, while Florin Iordache also received votes from parties that, in theory, supported his opponent. Augustin Zegrean, the candidate proposed by the PNL, was voted by only 41 MPs.
PSD sources affirm that there was an agreement with USR to support Senator George Dircă as head of the Legislative Council section. In exchange for the votes awarded by the PSD to the USR candidate, Dan Barna’s MPs should not have voted for the candidate proposed by the NLP, Augustin Zegrean.
Although the vote was secret, the calculations show that Florin Iordache obtained 168 votes from PSD-Pro Romania-ALDE and another 17 votes from the rest of the parties. Only 41 MPs voted for Augustin Zegrean, given that PNL and USR had 61 votes, and the Liberals claim that all MPs in the party voted with Zegrean.
The result was the following, according to some political sources: Of the 240 votes, Augustin Zegrean received only 41 votes, being voted practically only by the PNL group, not by USR. Instead, Florin Iordache received 185 favorable votes, for which 17 more than PSD, ALDE and ProRomania would have gathered. The third candidate, Ionuţ Mazîlu, received 2 votes, while another 12 votes were annulled.
On the other hand, for the head of the section for the registration of legislation, USR senator George Dircă was voted in by 174 parliamentarians and could not have reached the Legislative Council without the massive vote of PSD parliamentarians. Rodica Penescu got only 4, Andrei Ciochiou – 13 and 49 votes were annulled.
Hence the counter-accusations, after PSD and USR awarded two parliamentarians with life-long charges that had not obtained a new term.
After the vote, sources from the USR leadership told Digi24.ro that George Dircă would have concluded an agreement with the PSD himself, and party leaders fought to respond to dissatisfied people who accused an accountant with the PSD.
“USR would not vote for Florin Iordache forever at the head of a block of flats. These statements about us, who have fought for years with Iordache and Nicolicea, are ridiculous. In fact, Iordache won the deciding vote (185 out of 240), so in this conspiracy scenario against USR, it’s unclear why he would have needed our 21s. From the calculation of the votes of Mr. Zegrean, that is 41, and that of the presence of the USR, it would appear that not all the PNL parliamentarians voted for their own candidate, ”wrote USR deputy Cătălin Drulă.
USR blamed PNL, while PNL accuses USR of voting for Florin Iordache.
“As the results show, there is no other option, if we look at the votes obtained by Iordache and the USR candidate, no other conclusion can be drawn,” PNL president Ludovic Orban said Wednesday.
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