The deputy ministers will be appointed and discharged by the minister. They will start work when the new minister is named, if they have not been confirmed to the post by the Government at the proposal of the minister. The Parliament adopted an amendment to the law on the government on October 15. By another parliamentary decision, the law on the public post and the status of the public servant was also modified. The deputy ministers were excluded from the list of senior public servants and included in the list of ordinary public functionaries, Info-Prim Neo reports. The parliamentary group of the Communists Party did not vote on this bill, saying it is political in nature. “It seems that the Alliance for European Integration, after distributing the ministerial seats according to an algorithm, started to distribute the posts of deputy ministers according to the same principle,” said Communist MP Valentin Guznac. Another Communist MP Iurie Muntean said that the contest to fill the post of deputy minister is thus removed. One of the authors of the bill Mihai Godea said yet that if the new administration approves of the professionalism and abilities of the deputies who worked until present, the Government can confirm these persons to the posts again, at the suggestion of the minister, as an exception.