Today, the Parliament will debate and vote the motion of no-confidence which the USL filed last Wednesday against the Government led by Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu.

Victor Ponta, the president of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) said, on the occasion of the filing of the motion, that the groups of the USL have gathered 217 votes together, and the number of votes which is needed for the motion to pass is 231. Last week, senator Mihaela Popa resigned from the PDL and joined the National Liberal Party. On the same day, UNPR senator Corneliu Grosu announced that he was going to vote in favor of the motion, because the decision of the Government to create the Medicine and Pharmaceutical Studies Faculty (UMF) Târgu Mureş leads to a segregation of the medical education in the county of Mureș, through a "brutal intervention" of the Government.

Deputy Marius Dugulescu and senator Dorin Păran last Friday resigned from the PDL, and joined the PNL. Deputy Iosif Blaga intends to follow in their footsteps, according to sources from the PNL.

If this move gets accomplished, and Corneliu Grosu will stand by the decision which he announced last Thursday, the motion of no-confidence will only need nine votes to go through.

Assuming that no other member of the parties which make up the government coalition (PDL, UDMR and UNPR) decide to switch over to the side of the Opposition until the moment of the vote or to vote in favor of the motion, the opposition will have to get the votes it is missing from the groups of minorities and from that of the non-affiliated members of the parliament.

Since the minorities voted the same as the government coalition every time, the hopes of the USL seem to rest with the eleven independent parliamentarians (two senators and nine deputies). As deputy Mihail Boldea is currently under arrest, that leaves ten independents.

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