Even though there are only three weeks left until the Parliamentary elections, oppositions parties still want to bring down the current government, one newspaper reads on Monday. And politicians can pay to get local support in this years' elections, an investigation shows. Elsewhere in the news, doctors fear that patients will be left to die so that their organs be used.
Cotidianul reads that senators and deputies debate and vote today on the censure motion, "Education stays, the government leaves", submitted by the opposition. The motion was signed by 94 Democrat Liberals and 34 parliamentarians from the Greater Romanian Party.
This is the sixth censure of motion debated in the 2004-2008 legislature. Three were submitted by the Social Democrats against the first Tariceanu cabinet (Liberals - Democrat Liberals and Hungarian Democrats) and the other two against the second Tariceanu cabinet (Liberals - Hungarian Democrats).
Some 232 votes are needed for the motion to pass in the Parliament. Nonetheless, it is difficult to anticipate the results of the vote. Democrat Liberals count on 135 votes and other votes are expected to add from the minority groups.
Conservative party leader Daniela Popa declared that they did not take an official stand on the issue. However, a Conservative member declared that most surely his party colleagues would vote for the motion.
Social Democrats, at their turn declared that no final decision was taken yet. However, one of the party leaders, Miron Mitrea declared that they would most probably abstain. One thing is certain though: the fate of the government will be soon decided.
Also in politics today, Romania Libera reads that parties choose their representatives based on the money criteria. After an investigation conducted in several counties across Romania, journalists