BUCHAREST (Romania), October 12 (SeeNews) – Romania’s Constitutional Court on Monday declined to rule on the legality of a no-confidence motion against the country's minority government, opening the way for Parliament to vote on the motion on Tuesday.
Romanian opposition National Liberal Party, PNL, and the Democratic Union of the Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, filed the motion against the minority government of Prime Minister Emil Boc last week.
Boc's Democrat-Liberal Party, PD-L, asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of the motion, saying the same lawmakers cannot file two separate motions against the government during the same parliamentary session if the first motion has been rejected.
The Constitutional Court on Monday declared PD-L's request inadmissible for consideration.
Last month PNL and UDMR filed a motion against a controversial wage bill, which the Parliament rejected on September 24. One week later Romania’s two-party cabinet collapsed after the Social Democratic Party, PSD, left the nine months-old ruling coalition with the PD-L.
Local media has quoted PD-L sources as saying the government is considering stepping down, should the Constitutional Court rule the no-confidence motion legal.