October 13 (SeeNews) - Romania's minority government, led by Prime Minister Emil Boc, on Tuesday lost a no-confidence vote sought by the opposition over its performance.
The two chambers of parliament supported the motion by a 254-176 vote in a joint session. Four votes were invalid, while the rest of the 471 lawmakers either did not vote or were not present at the session. The motion needed 236 votes to pass.
The no-confidence motion was submitted last week by opposition National Liberal Party, PNL, and the Democratic Union of the Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, over the government's overall performance.
Boc’s cabinet, which took office last December, collapsed two weeks ago after the Social Democratic Party, PSD, left the coalition following the dismissal of a minister. Boc then set up an interim government made up only of members of his Democrat-Liberal Party, PD-L.
PD-L, led by Boc, controls 170 seats in the parliament, while PSD has 162. PNL and UDMR control 88 and 31 seats, respectively.