The Hungarian minority party UDMR has already said it will abstain from voting. The ruling coalition has a comfortable majority in Parliament and the motion requires the votes of half plus one the number of lawmakers to pass.
Calin Popescu Tariceanu, leader of the ruling coalition’s junior party ALDE, said the motion stands no chance of passing and deemed the opposition’s efforts as “useless”.
The opposition Liberal Party and the Save Romania Union party on November 17 submitted a no-confidence motion against the government led by Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, following the government’s hasty adoption of an emergency decree that overhauls the country’s tax system.