{"id":73973,"date":"2017-06-21T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/no-confidence-motion-against-the-government-73973.html"},"modified":"2024-02-16T09:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:47:14","slug":"no-confidence-motion-against-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/today-in-the-news\/no-confidence-motion-against-the-government-id73973.html","title":{"rendered":"No confidence motion against the government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>Today\u2019s vote in Parliament of a majority coalition against its own government was a first in Romania\u2019s post-Communist history. Dissident Social Democrat PM Sorin Grindeanu and another two rebel ministers were blamed for their lack of political maturity and responsibility and for deciding to govern on their own behalf although the PSD had withdrawn their political support. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>The motion was the only constitutional solution to which the PSD and ALDE could resort, in the context in which PM Sorin Grindeanu refused to step down, in spite of losing the political support of the PSD and most of his ministers and of being excluded from the PSD. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>In his defense, PM Sorin Grindeanu told Parliament that he did not understand why the PSD wanted to remove its own government at a moment when the governing process was going well, as proved by economic statistics. He has warned that passing the no confidence motion means that the PSD is no longer the governing party, thus becoming dependant on President Klaus Iohannis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>In retort, the PSD leader, Liviu Dragnea, said the government and the prime minister did not perform well and that Wednesday\u2019s vote meant the continuation of the PSD-ALDE governance, as the Romanian citizens voted in the December 2016 legislative elections. The scandal in the governing coalition started from the assessment of the Grindeanu cabinet\u2019s activity, 6 months after the government was installed. The assessment pointed to big delays in implementing the governing program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>PM Grindeanu rejected the assessment as ungrounded and defied the assessor, a former finance minister investigated for serious corruption acts, considering him unreliable. Grindeanu\u2019s opposition to Liviu Dragnea, the leader of the PSD, is the political surprise of the summer, according to commentators. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>Apparently submissive to the party leader, Grindeanu has proved unexpected courage. He denounced Dragnea\u2019s authoritarian style conditioning his resignation on Dragnea\u2019s own resignation. Some observers claim that the real reason behind the vote against Grindeanu is the government\u2019s delay in promoting the justice law and the criminal codes in the relaxed forms that would help Dragnea in a criminal case in which he is accused of incitement to abuse of office. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>PM Sorin Grindeanu\u2019s revolt and the PSD leadership\u2019s reaction to it, a no confidence motion against its own government, will surely have consequences within the PSD. Their voters will wonder what happened with the party\u2019s force and cohesion in only 6 months after taking power, in the context in which, in the absence of a strong parliamentary opposition, the president and the citizens were the only ones to sanction the government\u2019s actions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span style=line-height: 1.6em;>For Romania, Wednesday\u2019s vote should be a first step towards solving the political crisis. 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