I may have left without a parliamentary group at the Senate / Senator resigning in the party: It is the result of months of calls to the leadership

Two of the seven senators in the party of young people announced their resignation on Monday, at the beginning of the plenary session, so the group can dissolved automatically.

Liviu Fodoca and Stefan Borțun announced that they resign from the party and, implicitly, from the Senatorial Group.

Senator resignation from PO: party leadership chose a wrong road

“I resign from the party of young people and the parliamentary group I can. The decision to resign was not taken in haste and from personal ambitions. It is the result of months of sincere calls and steps addressed to the party leadership,” said Senator Fodoca from the Senate stand.

He accused the leadership of the subordination of the Party of the interests of another party, but also of centralizing power in the hands of a few people.

“The leadership may have chosen the wrong way gradually, the political project was subordinated to the interests of another parliamentary party, instead of being developed autonomously. Moreover, the centralization of decisions in the hands of a small group with the family -type influence have compromised the confidence in the promised direction,” said Liviu Fodoca.

Ștefan Borțun has, in turn, accused the leadership of the party of blocking several projects “for citizens”.

The Senate regulation provides that at least 7 senators are needed to form a group. Now, all five senators can remain non -affiliated. This is Gheorghe Vela, who is the group leader, Mariana-Vali Aldea, Liviu Sorin Robe, Robert Ghiță and Paul Ciprian Pintea.

Leaving a group, they can lose a number of benefits, such as cars or offices in Parliament. “The parliamentary groups have the right to the means of transport and the necessary logistics in order to carry out the activity established by the Permanent Bureau, depending on the size of the groups,” the Senate Regulation shows.

Departures from the Chamber of Deputies

Last week, they resigned from PE from six of the 20 deputies elected on the party lists led by Anamaria Gavrilă. With their departure, they can reach 10 deputies who left the party. In order for a party to have a group in the Chamber of Deputies, it is necessary to have at least 10 parliamentary members, and now they can have 14.

The six parliamentarians said they left because the tensions accumulated in recent months made it difficult to communicate with the party leadership.

“We came here to build. We were chosen because we promoted some ideas in which we believe and were lost on the road in which we were,” said Aurora Tasica Simu, one of the deputies who left the party.

The leader may have reacted claiming that “those who fled” did not betray the party, but “betrayed the Romanians who trusted them.”