The MPs of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Liberal Party and the Party of Communists left the assembly hall of Parliament when Prime Minister Pavel Filip came to present the Government’s report. Earlier the same day, the Socialist MPs announced they will not take part in the sitting. This way, the executive’s report for 2016-2018 is examined in the absence of the opposition, IPN reports.
Before the presentation of the Government’s report, Liberal MP Mihai Ghimpu said the report refers to the work done by the Government in 2016, 2017 and 2018. “I think it is not right as 2016 was the year when the PL was in power. If we look at the results very well, we see that the year when the PL was in power was the best. We do not want it to boast of our work and thus the Liberals will leave,” he stated.
Lib-Dem Tudor Deliu said the Liberal-Democratic parliamentary group repeatedly asked to examine the Government’s report for 2018, in accordance with the Parliament’s regulations. “We now see that the Government came with a report after the mandate of the current Parliament expired. The report was distributed to us yesterday, at 5:14pm, in breach of Article 127 of the regulations, watch provide that the report should be submitted at least ten days before its examination so that the MPs could familiarize themselves with this report. We also ascertained that this is the report of the Parliament, rather of the Government as the laws and documents that were adopted, not yet implemented, as the Government should have done, are enumerated here. That’s why the Liberal-Democratic group leaves the sitting in protest,” stated the politician.
The Communist leader Vladimir Voronin said even the report’s title “Government’s accomplishments” is annoying. “We saw mainly shows rather than concrete measures taken by the so-called Governed. These showmen who have Romanian blood in their veins should remain and cope by themselves. Goodbye,” said the politician.
Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu stated this report was actually requested by the parliamentary opposition. “They waited for three years and now lost patience. I hope many of them will submit applications to have the pay for today annulled,” he noted.
