The Romanian Parliament debated on Tuesday the motion of censure against the government in a session that started at 10 a.m. and lasted until 2 p.m.. According to statements from the Opposition the government can be considered dismissed. PSD leader Mircea Geoana announced that all Social Democratic Parliamentarians would vote in favor of the motion and Liberal Antonescu warned that Liberals who do not vote the motion risk exclusion from the party. Vote on the censure motion started shortly after 2 p.m.
UPDATE 1 10:05 Social Democratic and Democratic Liberal Parliamentarians declared for HotNews.ro that the motion will be decided only after the last vote is cast
UPDATE 2 10:08 Democrat Liberal Parliamentarian: The opposition will only have 234 of the necessary 236 votes to dismiss the government. Hungarian Democrats will vote against the motion
UPDATE 3 10:13 Liberal Orban: the motion will pass with 10 votes more than the minimum
UPDATE 4 10:27 The meeting dedicated to the motion was delayed by half an hour and the motion debate will last three hours and a half, the two Chambers decided. The government will only have one hour to present its point of view and Parliamentary groups will have 156 minutes to express their opinions.
UPDATE 5 10:34 PM Boc declared that he does not fear the debate, and the pensions issue is a problem that is worth his mandate, Romanian news agency NewsIn informs
UPDATE 6 10:38 Hungarian Democrats will vote the motion by secret vote while Liberals and Social Democrats will have an open vote
UPDATE 7 10:41 39 Parliamentarians are absent from the debate
UPDATE 8 10:47 Liberal Nicolaescu reads the text of the motion
UPDATE 9 10:50 Parliamentarians contacted by HotNews.ro avoid taking a firm stand and are convinced that each v