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Plenty of MPs playing truant and little appetite for work in Parliament

February 15, 2012

Lawmakers didn’t make it to work yesterday either, after legislative work was suspended on account of inclement weather Monday. The Chamber of Deputies plenum session yesterday morning started half an hour late, with session chairman Ioan Oltean announcing that 173 deputies were present of the overall 328, with most of the absentees from among the [...]

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