First no-confidence vote against the government fails

The no-confidence vote against the new salary law, which was forwarded by the opposition under the name “The Salary Law in 2011- the Last Swindle of the Basescu-Udrea-Boc government,” has been rejected.

The no-confidence vote was rejected with 190 votes “in favor” of the vote and one “against,” and was not successful because it did not total the necessary number of votes. The parliamentarians of the ruling coalition were present at the debate but did not vote.

At the end of the meeting, Mircea Geoana, the Senate president, announced that the salary law was adopted and can be contested at the Constitutional Court.

Victor Ponta, the president of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), the main opposition party, said PSD will contest the law at the Constitutional Court.
On Thursday, the government will have to go through a new no-confidence vote, this time regarding the law of the public workers’ unitary wage.

Otilia Haraga

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