The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will meet today in a joint session to debate and vote on an amendment to the Statute of Senators and Deputies that sets in place a 5-percent garnishment of the lawmakers’ per diem for each day of unauthorised absence.

Currently, unauthorised absences are subject to a 1-percent garnishment.

Also featuring on today’s agenda of the joint session will be the establishment of parliamentary friendship groups and the modification of the composition of some joint special committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

Acting Senate Chairman Mircea Abrudean urges his parliamentary colleagues „to take more responsibility” in the activity of the Parliament.

„We are putting order in Parliament’s activity and introducing stricter measures to ensure the active presence of the lawmakers. Those who do not show up for work will be sanctioned more severely! Tomorrow, the joint plenary session will discuss the proposal that unauthorised absences be sanctioned more severely: 5% of the gross monthly allowance, compared to 1% as it was previously. A change that also concerns those who, for political reasons, choose not to fulfil their responsibilities, as the lawmakers of the isolationist parties are doing these days, who have gone on a so-called ‘strike’ to avoid being present at the voting of the laws. Responsibility and seriousness must be priorities for any lawmaker,” Abrudean said on Monday in a social media post

AGERPRES