Censure motion debate in Parliament, pro-motion manifestations surrounding Parliament Palace

The censure motion "PSDragnea [Social Democratic Party, led by Liviu Dragnea], mother to all in the campaign, plague at rule" is a demarche with strong enough arguments to convince any parliamentarian with still a shred of conscience to vote for it, Liberals' leader Ludovic Orban stated. 

The National Liberal Party (PNL) leader considers that, in so far as parliamentarians are allowed to vote, the censure motion might stand a chance. 

"Perhaps someone will have some dignity, perhaps someone will show some courage, perhaps someone will listen to people's will and not Dragnea's orders. In case that someone follows Dragnea's orders he shows to be truly cut off from the Romanian citizen, that he no longer has any respect (...) that he doesn't care about his interests and he is nothing more than Dragnea's servant. I want to believe that in Romania's Parliament there are more representatives of citizens than Dragnea's and Tariceanu's [Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Chairman - ed.n.] servants," Orban said. 

According to him, there also exists an alternative to the government, and "PNL is ready to govern at any time." 

During the censure motion debate on Thursday, Save Romania Union (USR) parliamentarians are wearing white armbands with two black stripes which symbolise "the parallel state", USR leader Dan Barnea appreciating that the current Government is "even more toxic" than the one led by Sorin Grindeanu. 

"We, colleagues from USR, are wearing on our arm this band which stands for 'the parallel state', because what is happening these days in Romania shows that there truly exists a parallel between what politicians believe and the parallel state, which actually means the fight for supporting justice, against corruption and for the rule of law. The abandonment of the rule of law is presently under discussion in Parliament and therefore we, the ones in USR, alongside Romania's citizens are the real state, the state parallel to what corrupt politicians mean, who currently intend to turn justice in a crippled institution, at the majority's whim," USR Chairman Dan Barna affirmed before the beginning of the sitting. 

Prime Minister Mihai Tudose stated on Thursday in Parliament's plenary sitting that a censure motion is a constitutional right, specifying that PNL has transformed this legitimate right into "an opportunity to be populists, demagogues, to put on a show based on a script completely severed from reality." 

"I first and foremost appreciate the gestures of colleagues in the Liberal Party to allow a younger colleague to read it [the censure motion - ed.n.] without fundamentally taking responsibility for its contents (...) A censure motion represents a constitutional right and as democratic an exercise as possible. Unfortunately you have transformed this legitimate right into an opportunity to be populist, demagogues, to put on a show based on a script completely severed from reality," premier Tudose stated at the censure motion debate lodged by PNL and USR, titled "PSDragnea, mother to all in the campaign, plague at rule." 

He referred to Ramona Nicoleta Dinu, the USR senator who read the text of the motion. 

A few thousand people have gathered already on Thursday at Parcul Izvor in order to build a human chain around Parliament's Palace during the debate of the censure motion. People are carrying placards that read "PSDragnea resignation", "Thieves by day and by night", "PSDragnea recipe - the munificence leading to poverty." The protesters clamor with whistles, vuvuzelas, and other mouth-blown instruments.AGERPRES .