{"id":4786,"date":"2025-04-29T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2025-04-29T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:59:26","slug":"romanian-opposition-successful-with-simple-motion-against-labor-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4786","title":{"rendered":"Romanian opposition successful with simple motion against labor minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a majority of 61 votes to 59, the Romanian opposition parties have endorsed in the Senate a simple motion against labor minister Simona Bucura Oprescu, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/hotnews.ro\/aur-sos-si-pot-au-reusit-sa-treaca-in-parlament-motiunea-simpla-impotriva-ministrei-muncii-1957885\" target=\"_blank\">Hotnews.ro<\/a>.\u00a0It was the first defeat of the ruling coalition in Parliament, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, announced.<\/p>\n<p>The simple motion, not aimed at overthrowing but only penalising labor minister Oprescu, focused on the government&#8217;s refusal to adjust the public pensions to inflation at the beginning of the year, as provided by the law, citing budgetary constraints.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the vote in the Senate, where the ruling coalition holds a majority more fragile than in the Chamber of Deputies, was a combination of low vote attendance among the ruling coalition&#8217;s members and the reformist party USR joining the far-right opposition on this particular matter.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling coalition has 68 MPs in the Senate, compared to the 45 MPs of the far-right coalition (AUR-SOS-POT) and the 19 MPs of the reformist USR.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the debates, labor minister Simona Bucura Oprescu stated that the motion was based on false data and untruths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opposition&#8217;s initiative to submit a motion (\u2026) is an important and necessary democratic exercise. (\u2026) But I cannot agree that this initiative by the opposition is built on false data, half-truths, or omissions specifically designed to distort reality and misinform people!&#8221; the minister argued.<\/p>\n<p>Both she and her coalition colleagues from PSD and PNL accused the motion of being an electoral move and that &#8220;it is not at all a coincidence that you chose the moment for this motion, less than a week before the first round of the presidential elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your stake is not a fair one! It&#8217;s just an electoral combination! You are trying to speculate on the hardships of pensioners in order to get their votes!&#8221; said Simona Bucura Oprescu.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Alexandru Busca)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a majority of 61 votes to 59, the Romanian opposition parties have endorsed in the Senate a simple motion against labor minister Simona Bucura Oprescu, according to Hotnews.ro.\u00a0It was the first defeat of the ruling coalition in Parliament, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, announced. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}