Parliament. The Romanian Senate and Chamber of Deputies are today holding the first parliamentary session this year. The agenda includes the most important bills with regard to the deadlines assumed under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The leaders of the main parties in the ruling coalition, the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party, have announced, as legislative priorities, those on education and the reform of special pensions. The Liberals are also particularly interested in increasing the threshold from which pensions are taxed and a bill to merge the local elections with the parliamentary ones, in 2024. In May, according to the coalition's protocol, the rotation of premiers between the Liberals and the Social Democrats will take place. The Social Democrats have announced that they are working on a new government program, and the Social Democrat president, Marcel Ciolacu, who will take over the position of prime minister in this cas
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