Oana Gheorghiu's message to the parliamentarians caused an uproar among the opposition. The reactions of PSD, AUR and PACE MPs
Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu sent the parliamentarians a message in which he asks “wisdom and courage” before the vote on the censure motion on May 5. The reactions of PSD, AUR and PACE did not take long, with several MPs stating that the Bolojan Government will fall.
Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu PHOTO Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu announced, on Thursday evening, that she sent messages to all parliamentarians, in which she appealed to “wisdom and courage”before the election scheduled for May 5.
“This evening I sent a personal message to every deputy and senator of Romania. I appealed to them for wisdom and courage. I attached to this message the exploratory report on the possibility of listing some state companies – the original document, exactly as it was presented in the Government meeting on April 16 and immediately published on the official website of the Government”Oana Gheorghiu wrote on her Facebook page.
The Deputy Prime Minister stated that he took this step because “every parliamentarian has the right to vote on the censure motion with all the correct information at his disposal, not their distorted version”.
“The censure motion is based on a false narrative: that this government would like to “sell the country”. It is nothing more than a manipulation designed to create hysteria in society, built on the reminiscences of the 90s, when the same slogan created the space in which others plundered it, stole it and used it exclusively in their own interest. I have every conviction that the elected representatives of the Romanian people will exercise their vote on Tuesday not out of obedience to by a party leader, but out of respect for the Romanians who gave them their trust”added Oana Gheorghiu.
MPs' reactions
Following the message sent by the deputy prime minister, several voices from within the PSD, AUR, but also from the PACE parliamentary group reacted in the public space. AUR Deputy Valeriu Munteanu wrote on Facebook that he will vote for the censure motion, and the Bolojan Government must go.
“The message sent to the private e-mail address urges me to read (as a parliamentarian) a document with the Government's “achievements” before voting on the Motion. To be well informed and not to “vote for the benefit of a party leader”, says the Deputy Prime Minister in her nightly message. I read the document. An additional disappointment. Romania is in an economic recession, and this Government has an agenda parallel to that of the Romanians (…) Public answer at Mrs. Gheorghiu's request – I will vote “for” the motion of censure, I will vote for the dismissal of a government of austerity, of social inequity, of cuts in salaries, pensions and social allowances. A government of the sale (without notice) of Romania's strategic enterprises”he transmitted.
A reaction also came from the PSD deputy Ştefan Ovidiu Popa, who stated that the Bolojan Government will fall on May 5, when the censure motion will be voted on.
“Your letter no longer convinces anyone. The political reality is clear: on May 5, the Bolojan Government will fall. The social-democratic parliamentarians will vote without hesitation on the censure motion, without exceptions. You say that there is no intention to alienate state assets, but even the documents assumed by the Government show the opposite. The accelerated listing of shares in strategic companies such as Hidroelectrica, Romgaz, Salrom or Nuclearelectrica, in non-transparent conditions, is an alarm signal regarding the direction in which you are taking the economy. (…) The question of what we are leaving behind has a simple answer: not a country that gives up its strategic assets! On May 5, Parliament will give you this answer”he wrote.
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Another reaction came from the PSD MP Silvia Mihalcea, who accused Oana Gheorghiu of ignoring the MPs until now.
“Oana Gheorghiu, from the arrogant “height” of assuming responsibility, found that the motion was knocking on her door, and her chair wobbled, and she was finally willing to look down at the parliamentarians. Until now, for Mrs. Gheorghiu and the idol of her reign, Ilie Bolojan, the parliamentarians were non-existent (…) This is not how trust is built. This is not how support is sought, through late attempts, lacking credibility, appearing only when “the knife reaches the bone”.said the deputy.
For his part, Senator Adrian Peiu stated that “the message sent by email to parliamentarians by Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu represents an additional reason for the PACE – First Romania parliamentarians to vote on Tuesday's censure motion”.
“Since the end of October 2025, when she was appointed deputy prime minister in the Bolojan Government, Oana Gheorghiu did not know that there were parliamentarians, she discovered now, on the threshold of a motion of censure that will put an end to an abusive Executive that led the country through Emergency Ordinances and by assuming responsibilities that eluded the Legislature in a manner practiced only in dictatorships. When Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu consulted us regarding the Government's decisions? Has anyone from the opposition announced the plan to alienate the most profitable companies of the Romanian state? Did they come to the Parliament to ask for our opinion? (…) the interest of the Romanian people, not the interests of foreign nations and countries”conveyed the leader of the PACE – First Romania group.
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The no-confidence motion will be put to a vote on Tuesday
The motion of censure against the Bolojan Cabinet was read on Wednesday, April 29, in the assembled plenary of Parliament, and the debate and vote, which will be secret, with ballots, were scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, from 11:00.
The document was signed by more than 250 parliamentarians, but 233 votes are needed for adoption, i.e. the absolute majority of parliamentarians.
In this context, the government led by Ilie Bolojan can remain in office if at least 22 of the parliamentarians who signed the motion do not express their vote in favor of it.
