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TO UPDATE Florin Roman announced that there will be a roll call. As the leader of the PNI deputies spoke, several Social Democrats booed him: Mr. Călin, will you start the Court of Auditors with shouts? Mr. Bacalbaşa, take your pills.
UPDATE Ora 13.16.2018 PSD Senator Carmen Dan, former Interior Minister, will not go to the polls, say political sources. So, one less vote for PSD.
UPDATE Ora 13.15. UDMR decided: do not vote for the motion, but participate in the plenary session, say Adevărul political sources.
UPDATE Ora 12.15. The UDMR meeting started. Hungarian MPs decide whether to vote or not. According to Adevărul sources, UDMR will vote against anyway, even if it ensures a quorum.
UPDATE Ora 12.00 PSD no longer has a majority. The Social Democrats together with ALDE, ProRomania and PPUSL gathered 234 votes, one above the majority. But Adrian Todor, Arad PSD deputy, was quarantined yesterday, suspected of coronavirus, while Valeriu Steriu lost his parliamentary mandate after catching a sinecura in ANRE. Therefore, PSD has one vote below the majority limit at this time.
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The PNL, USR and PMP parliamentarians will not be present in the room for the motion of censure. Therefore, PSD and allies in Parliament cannot muster a quorum for the motion: 233 MPs present are needed to start the session, then 233 votes to overthrow the Government.
The adoption of a vote of no confidence involves two phases: 1. Session quorum: presence of half plus one of the total number of parliamentarians (at least 233). The session cannot begin without a quorum. 2. majority in favor of the motion: at least 233 votes. Some legislators can ensure a quorum, but can vote against the motion. So if there are 233 senators and deputies in the chamber at the beginning of the session, it does not automatically mean that the motion will get 233 votes in favor.
At this time, PSD and associations (ALDE, ProRomania and PPUSL) have 234 votes on paper, one above the majority, but there will be betrayals, say Adevărul political sources. “A PSD parliamentarian became ill and announced that he would not participate in the vote. Therefore, we look at 233, but it is hard to believe that all will be present,” say sources of the PSD leadership for Adevărul.
However, PSD could summon a quorum with the votes of the UDMR or the votes of the national minorities (17 deputies). If the UDMR does not interfere in the motion game, the PSD will hardly be able to gather 233 parliamentarians in the room to initiate the debate and vote on the motion of no confidence against the Orban government. If there is a quorum, the PSD must gather 233 votes in favor of the motion from among the parliamentarians present. For example, the UDMR can provide a quorum, but can vote against the motion.
According to the sources cited, the motion of censure could be buried due to lack of a quorum. “Our lawyers said that a motion of no confidence must be voted in the session in which it was presented. Today, August 31 is the last day of the special session in which the motion was read. As of September 1, we enter the ordinary session, so we are talking about another session. If we do not vote on the motion today, we will vote it in vain. It is unconstitutional. Theoretically, the vote is postponed if there is no quorum. Basically, the Orban government remains in office, because no one will wait to reschedule the vote ”, say sources from the PSD leadership for Adevărul.
At the start of the meeting, the NLP will make a nominal appeal, shouting from man to man, just to show that there are no 233 MPs present in the room. According to Adevărul sources, the PSD senators and deputies received a message of mobilization from the party leadership on Sunday in which Marcel Ciolacu acknowledges, among other things, that the motion of no confidence may not be voted on due to lack of a quorum.
The BNR deputy governor, Leonardo Badea, is Marcel Ciolacu’s choice for the post of prime minister, say sources from the PSD leadership for Adevărul. Badea was one of Liviu Dragnea’s relatives. The PSD and allies in Parliament get 234 votes on paper, one above the majority, but Social Democratic leaders believe the motion will not pass.
The Orban 3 government was overthrown by parliament on March 14 at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
If the motion of censure is approved, the current Cabinet will function as an interim, with limited prerogatives. “The Government whose mandate has ended in accordance with paragraphs 1) and 2) will only carry out the acts necessary for the administration of public affairs, until the members of the new Government are sworn in,” establishes the Constitution.
According to the basic law, after the fall of the Government, the President of Romania appoints a candidate for the position of Prime Minister, after consulting the party that has an absolute majority in Parliament or, if there is no such majority, the parties represented in the Parlament.
The candidate for the post of Prime Minister requests, within 10 days of the appointment, the vote of confidence of the Parliament on the program and the entire list of the Government. The program and the Government’s list are debated by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, in joint session. Parliament gives confidence to the Government with the vote of the majority of deputies and senators.
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