2020-12-21 23:35:21 GMT2020-12-22 07:35:21(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BUCHAREST, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) Romania s new Senate elected late on Monday Anca Dragu as head of the upper house in the bicameral Parliament in its first plenary session.
Dragu from USL-PLUS (an alliance between Save Romania Union and the Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity), the third-largest party in the new parliament, secured 75 votes as she won the support of senators of two other coalition parties. Lucian Romascanu, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the largest in the parliament, got 51 votes.
Altogether 133 of the 136 senators were present at the meeting and seven null votes were registered.
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2020-12-22 05:35:43 GMT2020-12-22 13:35:43(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BUCHAREST, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) Romania s new Chamber of Deputies elected early on Tuesday former Prime Minister Ludovic Orban as head of the lower house in the bicameral parliament.
Orban, leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), who resigned half a month ago after his party failed to achieve its goal of scoring the best in the general election, secured 179 votes as he was supported also by deputies of two other coalition parties. His opponent, Alfred Simonis, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), got 110 votes.
The first assembly of the lower house became a marathon and almost failed to complete the agenda, as the main opposition PSD was dissatisfied with the attempts of the ruling coalition to exclude social democrats from various leadership positions in the house, and once even threatened to boycott the meeting.
22/12/2020 11:18
President Klaus Iohannis invited the chairs of the political parties and formations represented in Parliament for consultations in order to nominate the candidate for prime minister. Based on the provisions of art. 80 paragraph (2) and art. 103 of the Romanian Constitution, President Klaus Iohannis invited to the Cotroceni Palace the chairs of the political parties and formations represented in the Romanian Parliament, for consultations in order to nominate the candidate for the position of prime minister, the Presidential Administration informed.
The consultations will take place on Tuesday, according to the following schedule: at 15.00 - Social Democratic Party (PSD) at 15.30 - National Liberal Party (PNL)
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The plenum of the Chamber of Deputies approved, on Tuesday, the numerical and nominal composition of the permanent committees.
The permanent committees of the Chamber are the following: Committee for Economic Policy (chaired by the Social Democrat Party - PSD) Committee for Budget-Finance (chaired by the National Liberal Party - PNL) Committee for Industries and Services (chaired by the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania - UDMR) Committee for Transport and Infrastructure (chaired by the PSD) Committee for Agriculture (PSD) Committee for Public Administration and Territorial Planning (PSD) Committee for environment and ecological balance (PNL)