MEP Claudiu Manda was absent from 43% of the votes in the European Parliament, according to a Politico analysis. The PSD representative is placed in second place, while the PNL representative, the head of the Romanian delegation of the EPP, occupies the 5th place in absences.
The MEP is second on the list of absentees from voting PHOTO Facebook
The Romanian MEP, Claudiu Manda, entered the EP on the PSD list, ranked second on the list of absentees, missing 43.6% of the plenary votes, according to a Politico analysis.
The first place is occupied by Ioannis Lagos, MEP sent to the European Parliament by Greece. Lagos was absent from 62% of the nominal votes in the plenary, having been incarcerated since April 2021.
According to the quoted source, Lagos, who alleges that he was imprisoned for not exercising his office, is still carrying out his parliamentary activity from his cell, submitting questions to the Commission and amendments to laws, and the measures taken during the Coronavirus pandemic have allowed him him to withhold his option in case of multiple votes.
Eva Kaili, another Greek MEP, and Belgian Marc Tarabella also missed a few votes after being detained in connection with the Qatargate investigation.
Manda was followed by several unaffiliated MPs, including Tamás Deutsch and András Gyürk of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party and Viktor Uspaskich of the Lithuanian populist Labor Party (PD), who all missed out on between 33 and 34% of votes.
In fifth place is the head of the Romanian delegation of the EPP, MEP Rareș Bogdan, who was absent from 32.8% of the votes, thus Romania having 2 representatives in the top five of the analysis.
Both Claudiu Anda and Rareș Bogdan were proposed for a new mandate on the joint list of PSD and PNL for the June 9 European Parliament elections. The liberal occupies the second position, and the social democrat the fifth position.
