The MPs are skipping work! Only five in 400 MPs showed up to attend their committee duties

It's easier finding a needle in a haystack than an MP in the Romanian Parliament! Out of the 400 deputies, only five MPs have attended today the meetings on committees. Although they had a busy schedule planned , as every week, the MPs have skipped the meetings, without giving a damn that they have hundreds of outstanding laws to review.

Closed doors and empty hallways. That’s how the Romanian Parliament looked like on a Thursday, when all Senators and Deputies should have been debating laws. None of the 20 committees had put in any working hours.

However, the journalists from the Observer have tried, to find the MPs in their offices. Three floors up, after having checked dozens of offices only one deputy was there working . Marin Gheorghe was struggling with the taxi law.

In other words, one does the work and the others only vote. But the advisors are carrying the workload. For instance, former deputy Ioan Bivolaru now works as a parliamentary expert, he cannot even begin to think of drafting laws with beginner deputies.

Overall, there are 300 laws waiting to pass the Committees of the Chamber of Deputies. The laws await, the deputies do not. The pile of draft laws will be there next week too. Maybe, by then the MPs will show up for work too.

Even if they skip work, the MPs lose nothing from their salaries. In one year alone, the deputies and senators cash in from the state budget nearly 63 million euro every year.