The motion, named "The No-Confidence Motion of Majority Romania, People's Motion" is signed and endorsed by 209 parliamentarians of the three opposition parties, said Mircea Dusa, Social Democrat leader in the Chamber of Deputies, who submitted the document.
"We filed the motion both to the Senate's President and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. The due dates and procedures will be established in the joint Permanent Bureaus," Dusa said.
Senate Chairman Mircea Geoana, a Social Democrat, said the motion is likely to be debated in the parliament on Saturday.
The opposition needs at least 236 aye votes of the 471-seat parliament to oust the Government. Opposition parties currently have a total of 214 seats in the parliament.
Social Democrat leader Victor Ponta earlier voiced hope there would be no more parliamentarians willing to "sell their political career", regreting over some social democratic and liberal MPs having sold their ballots "for a function, a car or an office" and deserting to the ruling coalition.
Ponta reaffirmed that the Social Democrats want an early election, arguing that the incumbent cabinet is currently "no longer supported by the people's vote as cast in 2008 or 2009".
The global financial crisis has had a great impact on Romania and the government decided to take a series of austerity measures to keep the rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund on track.
The move has sparked a wave of strikes and protests from labor unions.
The current coalition government was sworn in last December and consists of the Democratic Liberal Party, the Hungarian Democratic Union and the National Union for Romania's Progress, a group composed of former independents.
Source: Xinhua
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