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The Chamber of Deputies Secretary Niculae Mircovici announced this legislative body's agenda for next week, including a censure motion titled 'PSD [ruling Social Democratic Party] is allergic to Justice' and draft laws on a 5 percent cut to employers' social contributions and on fiscal amnesty for retirees.

The Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL, Opposition, made up of National Liberal Party - PNL and Democratic Liberal Party - PDL) will introduce a motion of no confidence in the coming session of the Parliament, PNL leader and ACL presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis announced in a press conference on Sunday.

The US embassy in Bucharest on Thursday slated an emergency ordinance that allows locally elected officials to change their party within a 45-day time limit.

The government will issue an emergency ordinance on Thursday that allows elected local officials opting within 45 days for another party, without thus losing the places they won, Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

Social Democratic Party (PSD) chairman Victor Ponta maintains that the electoral system on the election of Romania's president must be changed through Emergency Ordinance No 45/2014, while he is currently waiting for the Constitutional Court to rule on this matter.

Patriciu, one of the richest people in Romania and a prominent member of the center-right National Liberal Party, PNL, died of liver cancer in London on Tuesday. He was 64.

*The candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL, made up of National Liberal Party PNL and Democratic Liberal Party PDL) Klaus Iohannis announced on Monday night the start of his pre-campaign for Romania's presidency, with collection of the mandatory signatures of voters to allow him running.