Government Has Become The Real Parliament

05.23.2011 ZF English

The Parliament did not adopt any bill likely to generate an impact until May 10, with most of the normative acts sent to be signed into law being emergency ordinances of the Government and bills for which the Government assumed responsibility.

From the beginning of the year until May 10, the Parliament enacted 68 normative acts. Out of them, 41 (60% of the total) are laws endorsing the emergency ordinances of the Government, 9 (13%) are international agreements signed by the Government and 5 (7.3%) are laws sent to be signed by the President after the Government took responsibility for them before the Parliament, in which case they are enacted without any debate by the latter. Even if there are only five of them, they are huge, modifying dozens of laws and emergency ordinances issued over the years.

Only 12 normative acts are law drafts (19%). Therefore, for 80% of the bills passed the Parliament merely took note of the Government's will without being able to say something.

The bills debated by the Parliament have an insignificant and limited practical value. The laws debated by the Parliament over four a half months include: the Law celebrating the abolition of Roma people slavery, the Law on honoring the heroes of Fantana Alba, the Law amending a number of articles in the chamber of commerce law etc. The other laws likely to generate an impact such as the Labour Code, the Day Laborer Law or the Social Code were passed as a result of the Government assuming responsibility for them, and therefore not debated by the Parliament.