PSD leader Mircea Geoana: the Parliament to organize an extraordinary session to confirm the political support behind Klaus Johannis / It is a political act - Politics - HotNews.ro
The Permanent Offices of the two Chambers of the Parliament decided to call on Wednesday, a common meeting in order to vote an act confirming the Parliamentary majority behind Klaus Johannis. Social Democratic Party leader Mircea Geoana declared that the coalition endorsing Johannis submitted a request which was accepted. He explained that the act is purely a political move. The act will not compel President Basescu in any way, Senate's Speaker Mircea Geoana declared. He said that the move is just to prove that the majority behind Johannis exists.
[Again for background: whatever the size of their majority in parliament, the parties can't nominate a PM.] *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
And the update: the vote on Johannis was held this morning, and went 252 to 2, out of 334 MPs (with Băsescu's PD-L abstaining). The motion also declared the lack of support for Croitoru, the President's candidate.
Reactions have been high-pitched: the PD-L accused the others of ignoring the Constitution and the President's popular mandate, the PSD (SocDem) leader visioned the end of the Republic and compared Băsescu to Nero.
Next step announced: reinforce the motion with the signatures of all the MPs voting for on the declaration sent to the President. (That is, the message is: "you can't break up our coalition".)
Still, Parliamentarism can win this war against Presidentialism only if they can sratch on Băsescu's popularity and win back some of theirs... For scale, the last turnouts:
