“It won’t be a Parliament made up of 300 lawmakers, as no political party, including the Liberal Democrats, agreed with this,” Ponta said.
Asked what is happening with the outcome of the referendum, Ponta also said the citizens were also in favor of introducing the uninominal voting system, which was not introduced.
Ponta also said the ruling alliance USL is committed to amend the Constitution, and a referendum for revising the Constitution will be probably held in 2014, at the same time with the elections for the European Parliament.
Early January 2011, President Traian Basescu had sent the bill revising the Constitution to the Legislative Council for a standpoint, and then to the Constitutional Court, which checked whether it is constitutional.
The bill, together with the standpoint of the Legislative Council and the decision of the Constitutional Court, was forwarded to the Parliament to be debated and put to the vote.
The bill revising the Constitution implements the results of the national referendum held on November 21, 2009, when over 80% of people voted in favor of downsizing the Parliament to a single chamber and a maximum 300 MPs and introducing the pure uninominal voting system.