{"id":86053,"date":"2020-06-10T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/senate-passes-no-confidence-motion-against-labour-minister-86053.html"},"modified":"2024-02-19T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T06:46:09","slug":"senate-passes-no-confidence-motion-against-labour-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/today-in-the-news\/senate-passes-no-confidence-motion-against-labour-minister-id86053.html","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes no-confidence motion against labour minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has seen a number of political&#13;<br \/>\ninitiatives recently targeted against the Liberal minority government. After Parliament&#13;<br \/>\npassed a string of simple no-confidence motions against the ministers of&#13;<br \/>\nfinance, agriculture, home affairs and education, the Senate on Tuesday adopted&#13;<br \/>\na similar motion against the labour minister Violeta Aexandru, 76 yes votes and 28 no votes.<a> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The initiator of the move, the Social Democratic&#13;<br \/>\nParty, criticised the minister saying the government order on furlough and the&#13;<br \/>\nmeasures to support vulnerable categories was badly drafted and had to be&#13;<br \/>\nchanged several times. The minister also came under criticism for how she&#13;<br \/>\nreorganised the ministry and for how she handled the situation of the Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nworkers abroad. The Social Democrats also said she didn&#8217;t have solutions for the&#13;<br \/>\nrise in pensions and children&#8217;s allowances and for the Romanians who have&#13;<br \/>\nreturned from abroad. The Social Democrat senator Radu Oprea:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>You did nothing to prevent the Romanians&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nliving standards from dropping by 10%. You don&#8217;t have a single project so that&#13;<br \/>\nthe over 1 million Romanians who have returned since the start of the pandemic should&#13;<br \/>\nstay and work here.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The labour minister rejected the accusations&#13;<br \/>\ncontained in the motion, which she described as full of lies and misconceptions&#13;<br \/>\nand an act of contempt against honest, hard-working people. She said that since&#13;<br \/>\nthe beginning of the state of emergency checks were conducted at 4,000 places&#13;<br \/>\nof work resulting in fines of over 830,000 euros. She also said she had the utmost&#13;<br \/>\nrespect for pensioners and that she would make sure that all applications for a&#13;<br \/>\nrecalculation of the pension are solved. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Minister Alexandru also pointed out that when&#13;<br \/>\nshe took over, the pensions authority was riddled with problems and people had&#13;<br \/>\nto wait a long time for their retirement orders to be issued: <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>You knew about these things and didn&#8217;t care. I&#8217;ve&#13;<br \/>\nworked enormously to reduce considerably the number of long overdue cases of applications&#13;<br \/>\nfor retirement and for the recalculation of pensions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>As for the situation of Romanian workers abroad,&#13;<br \/>\nVioleta Alexandru said a bill was up for public consultation providing for safer&#13;<br \/>\nmeasures for the Romanian workers seeking employment abroad. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The minister&#8217;s activity also came under&#13;<br \/>\ncriticism from senators from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, the&#13;<br \/>\nDemocratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, as well as from the People&#8217;s Movement Party and Pro Romania party, all of whom&#13;<br \/>\nwho demanded her resignation. The National Liberal Party and the Save Romania&#13;<br \/>\nUnion voted against the motion. However, passing the motion does not imply the&#13;<br \/>\nminister will lose her job. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian Senate passes simple no-confidence motion filed by the Social Democratic Party against labour minister Violeta Alexandru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":85127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[31035,32210],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-86053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-motion","tag-no-confidence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate passes no-confidence motion against labour minister - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/today-in-the-news\/senate-passes-no-confidence-motion-against-labour-minister-id86053.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate passes no-confidence motion against labour minister - 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