166 members of Parliament voted in favor of the motion, with four voting against, according to parliamentary sources. The motion needed 233 votes in its favor to pass.
Opposition parties which initiated the motion were unsuccessful in negotiating support, managing to obtain only 14 votes more than the number of MPs that had signed it when it was filed – 152. Most MPs left the plenary chamber before the vote.
The vote was preceded by a parliamentary debate, during which Prime Minister Dancila criticized the motion and its initiators of “bringing forth accusations devoid of logic” towards her cabinet.
Outside of the Parliament, at least two thousand people protested against Romania’s Government, asking for its resignation.
The no-confidence motion against Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila was initiated by the Liberal Party, garnering the support of opposition parties USR and PMP.
In the motion’s text, opposition parties accused the Government of being at fault for Romania reaching a record 5.4% inflation rate in June of 2018 and also of growing the country’s public debt, without initiating notable infrastructure projects.
They also accuse the PSD-ALDE coalition government of trying to politically subjugate magistrates through their proposed judicial reforms, of ignoring investments into education and research and of failing to properly reform Romania’s health system.