BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's parliament speaker has accused the main opposition party of seeking a bribe for votes on a pension law demanded by the International Monetary Fund.
Roberta Anastase claimed Tuesday that lawmakers from the Social Democracy Party demanded millions of euros (dollars) in exchange for passing a law to raise the retirement age and cut pensions.
Social Democracy leader Victor Ponta denied the allegations.
In the end, opposition lawmakers did not attend the voting session Wednesday.
Both Ponta's party and journalists have accused Anastase's governing Democratic Liberal Party of rigging the successful vote on the pension law by inflating the number of lawmakers who were in parliament that day to get the legislation passed.
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