Romania’s ruling liberals and their rival political democrats reached an agreement today to form a coalition government, two months after the start of a severe political crisis amid a pandemic.
The two factions, which shared power from 2012 to 2014 before clashing, also decided to run for prime minister, for the first time in history, until the December 2024 elections.
Liberal (PNL) candidate Nikolae Tsiuka and Social Democrat (PSD) candidate Marcel Tsiolakou will take over the presidency for a year and a half each.
“We have completed talks on the political formation of the future government,” Marcel Tsiolakou told reporters after meeting with the PNL and the Hungarian Minority Party (UDMR), which will also join the coalition government.
For his part, Nicolae Chiuka said he had no choice but to agree tomorrow on the name of the first prime minister to submit the election to President Klaus Johannes.
Attempts to form a Romanian government had failed in early November, when the Liberals refused to ally with the Social Democrats.
Inflation of up to 8%, slowing economic growth in the European Union’s poorest country, fiscal consolidation, managing the health crisis: the next Romanian government will have to deal with many urgent issues at a time when Romania is suffering from new wave of the epidemic, while the vaccination rate reaches only 37%.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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