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In his opening remarks, Leon Danaila said Romania&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nSenate had in time demonstrated its vocation as an engine of democracy and a&#13;<br \/>\nforum for political debate of all problems in society. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Leon Danaila:  A strong state is unconceivable without an authentic democracy and an&#13;<br \/>\nauthentic democracy is unconceivable without a strong and respected&#13;<br \/>\nParliament.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the&#13;<br \/>\nChamber of Deputies, Miron Ignat spoke about the parliamentarians&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nresponsibility towards the people who elected them. Miron Ignat:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p> We, the members of the new Parliament, must perfect the legislation in the&#13;<br \/>\nfield of education, healthcare and public administration so that the laws we&#13;<br \/>\nwill pass in this Parliament will benefit the people who have elected us.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>At&#13;<br \/>\nthis stage, the parliamentary parties have divided among themselves the&#13;<br \/>\nchairmanship of the specialist committees. The Social Democrats, who have&#13;<br \/>\ncategorically won the elections with 45% of the votes, will chair most of these&#13;<br \/>\ncommittees, both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies. They will thus&#13;<br \/>\nchair 10 Chamber of Deputies committees, including the legal, budget, defence,&#13;<br \/>\nemployment and healthcare committees. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The National Liberal Party, the second&#13;<br \/>\nlargest party in Parliament, will chair four committees. The Save Romania Union&#13;<br \/>\nand the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats will chair two each, while the&#13;<br \/>\nDemocratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians and the People&#8217;s Movement Party one each.&#13;<br \/>\nIn the Senate, the Social Democratic Party will chair 11 committees and the&#13;<br \/>\nLiberals five. The parliamentary parties have also established some of the&#13;<br \/>\ndetails of their future strategy. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Social Democratic Party,&#13;<br \/>\nLiviu Dragnea:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p> We will never support legislation that provides for benefits or special&#13;<br \/>\nadvantages for elected officials. When we manage to raise the living standard&#13;<br \/>\nin Romania, only then will we also think of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\ninterim secretary general of the National Liberal Party Marian Petrache spoke&#13;<br \/>\nabout his party&#8217;s priority at this point:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p> Choosing the best people for the positions allocated to the National Liberal&#13;<br \/>\nParty, people with experience, who are familiar with the parliamentary customs&#13;<br \/>\nand who are able to make constructive opposition to the Social Democratic Party&#13;<br \/>\nin the best interest of all: ours, as a party, and the citizens of Romania.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p> It&#13;<br \/>\nremains to be seen if the promises made now will be backed by actions. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Parliament in Bucharest is now in the technical procedures stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":71337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[38764,38765,38763,29122],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-71336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-deputy-miron-ignat","tag-liberal-marian-petrache","tag-liberal-mp-leon-danaila","tag-romanian-parliament"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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