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That arrangement held for about three months, until Barnier tried to force through cuts in social security spending by using a slippery parliamentary maneuver that avoided an up-or-down vote.

The liberal party said it would submit the motion again at the next parliamentary session on Wednesday — and every week after that until it passes.

The crowd went silent as they watched parliamentary officials sift through the ballots.

Romania has only just held parliamentary elections in which the centrist parties did better than expected.

Lord Ranger was suspended from the Conservative parliamentary party following the Lords commissioner for standards report last year but he was readmitted in November.