Romania – No-confidence motion receives 0 votes

This is not a re-post! On 23 December the Romanian government survived its fourth no-confidence motion of the year and its second in a week. This time, the government made the so-called Unitary Wage Law a matter of confidence. Therefore, the bill would automatically become law unless a motion of no-confidence was lodged and successfully passed.

The opposition did lodge a motion of no-confidence. However, when it came to the vote, the opposition left the chamber. This meant that 0 votes were cast in favour of the motion. Given an absolute majority is required for the motion to be passed, there is no need for the government to vote against the bill. Therefore, the motion received 0 votes for and 0 votes against! This is surely a first. Anyway, the motion failed and the government’s bill passed.

The vote was marred by a protest from a public sector worker. He jumped from the public gallery onto the floor of the Chamber. Be warned, the footage is quite disturbing. Thankfully, he survived and had only relatively minor injuries.

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