Parliament, to vote on Monday on Hellvig's nomination to SRI leadership (official)

The joint plenum of the Deputies' Chamber and Senate will vote on Monday, at 16,00, on the nomination of Liberal (PNL) MEP Eduard Hellvig as the civilian head of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), Deputies' Chamber Speaker Valeriu Zgonea announced.

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"The joint standing bureaus scheduled the plenary sitting for Monday, at 16,000. (...) The first priority is the voting regarding the new SRI Director. The SRI committee report came in today," Zgonea said on Wednesday, adding that the decision in the committee was made by 14 votes in favour.

He mentioned that the Liberals asked that the voting took place this Wednesday.

"I remind you that a decision was postponed on Monday, we didn't know in how many days the SRI committee would make this decision. I don't know if the committee can make a decision on the nomination of a Director in a day or two. (...) It is not my decision, nor President Tariceanu's, we are not the ones to mobilise the members of the parliamentary groups so they attend a meeting. It was a decision made by all the parliamentary groups with a majority in the joint standing bureaus," the Lower Chamber Speaker said.

When asked what the Social Democratic Party (PSD) endorsed in the standing bureaus meeting, he showed that: "The PSD endorsed the Monday sitting, at 16,00. (...) It is a decision made by the PSD parliamentary group in the discussions in the group meeting on Monday." AGERPRES