The government that refuses to die

Published on 28 October 2010 at 09:58

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"Why did the motion fail?" wonders România liberă, in the wake of the rejection of a no confidence vote against Emil Boc’s government, the fifth in less than two years. Although 40,000 demonstrators gathered outside the country’s parliament, "the failure of the no confidence motion did not come as a surprise," remarks the newspaper. Once again, clever manoeuvring on the part of the ruling coalition meant that disorganised parliamentary opposition was predictably unable to take advantage of public hostility to increasingly stringent austerity measures.

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