Social Democrats propose a register of Romanians living abroad

The Social Democrat Party (PSD, main at rule) has proposed on Wednesday, during the meeting with President Klaus Iohannis at the Cotroceni Palace, a register of Romanians living abroad to be fathered, and the activity of the Parliament to be alike the European legislative's, said the party's chair, Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

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'We agree and wish to re-start, during this parliamentary session, the two committees ? the Committee of modification of the electoral laws and the Constitution's revision Committee. As regards the electoral laws, a special preoccupation to guaranteeing the vote of the Romanians from abroad, and here we have proposed that the organizing of the vote be the responsibility of the Standing Electoral Authority which has organized the elections very well on Romania's territory, and we are to give it all the necessary logistical resources, so that the AEP accomplishes this attribution. We have also proposed a register of the Romanians living abroad to be fathered, so that the AEP could know how it could organize the elections, be it about the polling stations, or the voting by mail, and encounter no problems,' said Ponta at the Cotroceni Palace, after the meeting of the PSD delegation with President Klaus Iohannis.

He added that the PSD reiterated its support for an alteration of the regulation of the two Chambers of the Parliament, starting from the demand of President Iohannis in reference to faster procedures when it comes to lifting parliamentary immunity.

'We have proposed an ample modification, due to turn the Parliament's activity more transparent, more efficient and more responsible in front of their voters, a way of work at the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate,...