{"id":10609,"date":"2026-06-14T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10609"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:01:08","slug":"romanian-president-nominates-liberal-party-vp-as-pm-after-eugen-tomac-gives-up-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10609","title":{"rendered":"Romanian president nominates Liberal Party VP as PM after Eugen Tomac gives up mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Nicu\u0219or Dan has nominated Adrian Ve\u0219tea\u00a0<\/strong>(pictured left<\/em>), the president of Bra\u0219ov County Council and the vice-president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), for the prime minister job after Eugen Tomac gave up his mandate.<\/p>\n

Dan called the nomination \u201cthe best political solution,\u201d one taken following consultations with the political parties. He thanked Tomac for taking on the task of forming a government and said neither him, nor Tomac \u201ctreated governing like a game.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his turn, Ve\u0219tea said he wanted \u201ca political government,\u201d one who would undertake \u201creal reforms\u201d and \u201ckeep Romania on its pro-Western track.\u201d He said he was open to discussions with the pro-Western, democratic parties in Romania\u2019s Parliament.<\/p>\n

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The new nomination comes after Eugen Tomac failed to secure the backing of the National Liberal Party<\/a>, while the Save Romania Union (USR) and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) were also reluctant to back Tomac, arguing that a technocratic cabinet that only had the support of PSD would not be able to govern and carry out needed reforms.\u00a0PSD seemed willing to back Tomac\u2019s government, provided that several fiscal measures initiated by the party would be implemented. <\/p>\n

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The nomination of Tomac came on June 4, a month after the collapse of the government headed by prime minister Ilie Bolojan, the leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), following\u00a0a no-confidence vote in Parliament on May 5<\/a>. The no-confidence motion was submitted by members of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), an opposition party.<\/p>\n

Bolojan led a government backed by a coalition made up of PSD, PNL, Save Romania Union (USR), and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). After repeatedly clashing with Bolojan over various measures, PSD withdrew its support for the PM and exited the government.<\/p>\n

Tomac, an adviser of president Nicu\u0219or Dan, was meant to lead a technocratic government. He is a member of the European Parliament and the president of the People’s Movement Party (Partidul Mi\u0219carea Popular\u0103), which did not make the threshold to be represented in Romania’s Parliament. He presented his would-be-government’s program only a day ago.<\/p>\n

The president described Ve\u0219tea as someone well-acquainted with the local administration, who was involved in attracting EU funds and developed the Bra\u0219ov Airport.<\/p>\n

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Following the nomination, he has ten days to come up with a list of ministers and a governing program, which need to be approved by Parliament. If the Parliament rejects the president\u2019s proposal, the process restarts.<\/p>\n\n

(Photo: screen capture from live broadcast)<\/em><\/p>\n

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simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Nicu\u0219or Dan has nominated Adrian Ve\u0219tea\u00a0(pictured left), the president of Bra\u0219ov County Council and the vice-president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), for the prime minister job after Eugen Tomac gave up his mandate. Dan called the nomination \u201cthe best political solution,\u201d one taken following consultations with the political parties. He thanked Tomac for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}