The Minister of the Economy, Varujan Vosganian, yesterday handed in his honorable resignation from the Government. Yesterday at lunch, after the request to begin prosecution against him was rejected in the plenum of the senate, minister Vosganian said that he was prepared to hand in his honorable resignation and that he would talk to the prime minister about that. "I am prepared to hand in my honorable resignation if this will be the conclusion of the consultations with my colleagues in the government and with prime-minister Victor Ponta", said Vosganian, from the stand of the senate.
In closing, he thanked his senator colleagues "from the heart" for rejecting the request of the general prosecutor of the High Court of Cassation and Justice to allow for his prosecution. He said that the vote of the Senate has issued a "not-guilty" verdict, given the overwhelming majority.
"I am overwhelmed by a feeling of emotion and I think that after a quarter of a century of political activity, there can be no greater gesture of solidarity and confidence than this one", the minister told his Senate colleagues after the vote.
The official result of the vote in the request to begin prosecution of minister Varujan Vosganian was announced in the plenum, with 126 votes "against" and 25 votes "in favor".
151 votes were rendered, in a secret vote.
The general prosecutor of the Court of the ICCJ has requested on September 2nd, permission from the Senate and the Romanian president to begin the procedures for the prosecution of Varujan Vosganian and respectively, Adriean Videanu, for conspiracy and undermining of the national economy.
The requests have been sent to the Senate and to the President by the general prosecutor of the High Court of Cassation and Justice following the request received from the head of the DIICOT.
The case in which the DIICO
