The bill, which seals a Government emergency ordinance on recalculating military pensions, was adopted by MPs on Tuesday with 168 to 116 votes and seven abstentions. The lower house had the final say on the normative act, which was debated with urgency.
According to Dusa, social democrats call for annulling the vote cast Tuesday, arguing that some ruling party MPs voted in the name of their absent party fellows.
Video footage, broadcast by several TV stations, shows democrat liberal deputies Marius Dugulescu and Dan Liga using two vote cards.
End-January, the Government approved an emergency ordinance which changed the way the pensions of former military personnel are calculated, after the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional a Government decision on recalculating the pensions of military staff, police officers and public servants with special status, who work in penitentiary administration.
Early June, Defense Minister Gabriel Oprea said the ministry had completed the process recalculating military pensions on June 1.
Oprea said 90.2% of the 76,885 recalculated pensions are higher. He highlighted no pension lower than 3,000 lei (about EUR710), granted to full-career military staff, have been cut. (EUR1=RON4.2517)