18:06 PM In the Senate, 67 parliamentarians voted for the motion and 153 deputies passed.
UPDATE 17:39 PM PDL Nicolae Stan attended the vote
17:20 PM The first two votes from the independents: Tudor Ciuhodaru and Catalin Chereches
17:08 PM The vote on the motion started. The vote is secret, with balls
16:30 PM PM Emil Boc tried to speak but PSD deputies called for the resignation of the government.
UPDATE 15:25 PM PSD leader Victor Ponta in the Parliament: there are 100,000 people in the stret, wondering whether today they have a chance to really live their lives in this country. There are millions of Romanians looking at them and at what the Parliament is going to do. It would have been better for you to go on the streets
UPDATE 15:17 PM Most Social Democrats are skeptical that they will manage to pass the motion, several hours before the vote in the Parliament.
UPDATE 14:42 PM Finance minister Gheorghe Ialomitianu: this motion of censure needs to be rejected. If measures proposed by the Opposition would be implemented, Romania will be blocked and it will lose its international credibility.
UPDATE 14:32 PM PSD leader Victor Ponta reached the Parliament after he attended, for three hours, the protest
- PM Boc is a young man, qualified, that does not need to be assisted byt needs to be sent to work, he will find one
- You need to step down from the government but not because you started to heal the society from the maladies of the past
- The reform of the government is to cut salaries, but not all salaries.You did not have the courage to lay off those who were hired based on nepotism
- You run a team set up on feudal criteria on links based on blood not on performance
- your government claims it is right wing, but do you think that the right wing policy is to take as much public money and give it to clients?
- it is normal that the power attempts to shut down the opposition but this government planned to shut down the voice of the majority
- you are endebted to vote against the government
- it is unacceptable to be governed by a party that does not have parliamentary support
UPDATE 13:10 PM PM Boc: We chose to heal through a tough medicine, but with beneficial consequences, we launched a set of reforms that no government in the last 20 years had the courage to do it.
The governing coalition announced that they will not vote the motion. If the motion will pass, the government will be demitted and the President will call parties for consultations to name a new PM to form the executive. If the motion will be rejected, deputies and senators who initiated the motion cannot initiate a new one in this session, except for the case the government takes responsibility for a law.