​A simple petition filed by USR and Forța Dreptei against Health Minister Alexandru Rafila was rejected on Wednesday by the Chamber of Deputies with 89 votes in favor, 161 against, 15 abstentions and one non-voting member.

Rafila in the parliament Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea

“Criminal negligence and deliberate murder, today the cowardly PNL, saved for the third time the son of General Alexandra Rafil, the chief of security in Arad, who sentenced to death 27 peasants from Arad who opposed collectivization,” said USR MP Emanuel Ungurianu, after voting for proposal

“Rafila dooms Arad’s children to death by depriving them of their motherhood, a project funded by USR through PNRR. The cowards of PNL Alba should know that Rafila deprived the patients of the chance of life in Alba Iulia by destroying the project that was supported by the USR through the PNRR. The people of Brasov should know that Rafila, the son of the chief of security in Arad, stopped funding the pneumophthiasis hospital, and that this is a deliberate criminal act. Cancer patients in Romania have no medicine and no Cancer Registry because the PNL, the coward, leaves the most toxic, lazy and incompetent minister in the history of Romania at the Ministry of Health. You are a shame,” Unguryanu added.

The interim president of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfred Simonis, responded: “Ask your USR colleagues to listen to you, because they are leaving. Mr. Drula left.”

Health Minister Alexandru Rafila said on Monday during the debate in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies the simple submission of USR and Forza Dreptei against him that the signatories of the submission continue to disappoint even now, as they did when they were in government: “Lies, repetition of slander , disinformation is the ingredients of the text of the submission filed against me,” said the PSD MP.

Opposition MPs hung posters in banks demanding the resignation of the Minister of Health.