The motion was rejected after it garnered only 159 out of the 233 votes it needed to pass. Three lawmakers voted against the motion and 23 abstained.
The motion had not been expected to garner the majority of votes needed to oust the government, as the ruling PSD-ALDE coalition has a comfortable majority in Parliament, with 243 lawmakers out of the total of 465. Hungarian minority party UDMR had also announced it would not vote.
The opposition Liberal Party and the Save Romania Union party on November 17 submitted a no-confidence motion against the Tudose Cabinet following the government’s hasty adoption of an emergency decree that overhauls the country’s tax system.