The government yesterday assumed responsibility before the Parliament, for the new version of the restitution of the plots of land and the immovables which were abusively seized by the former communist regime, after weeks of talks, interventions in the European Court of Human Rights and threats of a vote of no-confidence.
186 parliamentarians did not participate in the session for the meeting of the assuming of the responsibility, as there are voices which claim that the new form of the law will be rejected by the ECHR and the Constitutional Court.
It took just a few hours after the government took responsibility for the new law for the unfavorable reactions to appear, from former owners who contested the decision of the government as well as from the opposition of the parliamentary groups of the PDL and Forţa Civică (Civic Force) parties.
The leader of the PDL, Vasile Blaga, yesterday announced that despite the fact that he was unable to count on the support of the UDMR and PPDD for the vote of no-confidence on the law of restitutions, he will continue to dispute it.
He said that Prime Minister Victor Ponta has expressed his commitment for the law of compensations to former owners in a "perfectly demagogical style", because this will leave to the coming governments to deal with the issue, specifically after the elections of 2016, and he added that the PDL will dispute the draft law at the Constitutional Court.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta also reacted to the statements of the leader of the PDL, and called his attempt to go to the Constitutional Court as one of the most reckless acts in politics of the last 23 years.
The Prime Minister said that the PDL is the only political party which should stay away from the issue during this period, for all the frauds and thefts it committed between 2009 and 2011: "If the people of the PDL we