Preparations for Censure Motion

236 votes are needed for the motion to pass. The Liberal Democratic Party, the main party in the governing coalition, believes that the current government will survive the motion.

On the one hand the economic crisis requires keeping internal stability while on the other, the opposition does not have the necessary number of votes to remove the government, the Liberal Democrats think.

However the opposition hopes to make a change. Here is the vice-president of the Social Democratic Party, Rodica Nasar: “I have a feeling that this motion will pass. Why?

Because I have been talking with my colleagues, of course unofficially, colleagues from the Liberal Democratic Party, from the minorities group, from the independents’ group ...there are many of them who want the motion to pass.

The recent protests will also have an influence on the vote but equally important is the influence and the decision of government parties to allow their members to vote or not”.

So the opposition expects some of the MPs from the governing parties to vote for the motion, given that they were heard expressing discontent with the anti-crisis measures of the Boc government.

Therefore, to do away with any suspicion regarding potential treason, the Liberal Democratic leaders have decided that the Liberal Democratic MPs will abstain from vote.

Here is Mircea Toader, the leader of the Liberal Democratic group in the Chamber of Deputies: “We have always been accused of not having a safe majority. Because the opposition wants to have the power, to prove that it holds the majority”.

The other two pro-government partiers in parliament, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and the National Union for the Progress of Romania have followed the example of the Liberal Democrats.

Under these circumstances the opposition will not have the necessary number of votes to topple the government.

A fact which the president of the National Liberal Party also admits.

He believes that the opposition is not yet ready to form an alternative to the current government and he gives the Boc government 55% chances to remain in power.

Consequently, the fight for changing the power will carry on. Political analysts notice that, if the motion is rejected, the opposition loses a big chance of changing the government, which, despite its lack of popularity, will survive until the 2012 elections.

And the first measure after the motion is to be taken on Thursday when the cabinet takes responsibility for the controversial education law, blocked for several months in Parliament.