On Monday, the Senate debates and votes on the simple motion against the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Oana Țoiu. The simple motion was initiated by the Peace First Romania group and criticizes Oana Țoiu’s position regarding the Mercosur agreement. The debate starts at 16:00.
PACE – Last week, Romania first submitted a simple motion against Oana Țoiu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The motion is supported by the parliamentary group of the AUR and concerns the way in which Minister Oana Țoiu represented Romania in the European decision-making process regarding the EU-MERCOSUR Agreement, writes Mediafax.
The simple motion is titled “Progressive diplomacy with hashtags has put Romania’s agriculture at risk. Oana Țoiu says ‘yes’ to others and ‘no’ to her own citizens”.
According to the initiators, supporting the MERCOSUR agreement “it was not a technical error and it was not a procedural escape, but a political option assumed, with deep and negative economic effects for Romania”.
The document also states that “Romanian farmers are exposed to unfair competition from products from countries that do not respect the same environmental standards, food safety and production costs imposed on Romanian farmers”. The initiators of this approach also criticize the fact that “this decision was taken without interministerial consultation THE REAL” and that “the Minister of Agriculture publicly declared that he was not consulted in establishing Romania’s position”.
The simple motion will be debated and voted on in the Senate plenary, starting at 4:00 p.m.
