The committee, which has 23 MP members, including one committee president, five vice-presidents and two secretaries, was approved with 439 votes in favor and one abstention.

The parliament’s decision sets the necessary quorum for the committee’s meetings and decisions at two thirds of its members. The committee includes nine MPs of the Social Democratic Party, six of the Liberal Party, three of the Democratic Liberal Party, two of the Dan Diaconescu People’s Party, one MP of the Hungarian minority party UDMR, and one member of the Conservative Party.

The commission will be headed by Liberal Party leader and Senate chairman Crin Antonescu.