{"id":10772,"date":"2026-06-24T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:00:25","slug":"romanian-social-democrats-vote-to-back-party-leader-sorin-grindeanu-for-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10772","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Social Democrats vote to back party leader Sorin Grindeanu for prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD) unanimously voted on Wednesday, June 23, to return to government with its leader, Sorin Grindeanu, as prime minister. The party, formerly part of the governing centrist coalition, voted in May to bring down the Liberal-led Ilie Bolojan<\/a> government despite earlier agreements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision also comes after a proxy of the Social Democratic Party, the Ve\u0219tea cabinet, failed to gather support in Parliament<\/a>. Designated PM by president Nicusor Dan in order to remove Bolojan as PNL head and coerce the party back into an alliance with PSD, in the end, Ve\u0219tea received only the votes of PSD and those of its satellites.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bolojan was reconfirmed as PNL leader and expelled internal dissenters in an extraordinary congress. Then, the interim prime minister\u00a0proposed\u00a0a six-month national political agreement<\/a> open to all parliamentary parties to president Nicu\u0219or Dan. The agreement is\u00a0aimed at implementing a limited set of priorities through a minority government<\/p>\n

Under the proposal, the minority cabinet could either be formed by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), as the largest parliamentary force, with full political responsibility, or by the other three members of the former ruling coalition, namely PNL, the reformist party USR, and the Hungarians’ party UDMR, with support in Parliament from the signatories to the agreement.<\/p>\n

By voting to back Grindeanu, 52, as PM, the Social Democrats seem to acquiesce to PNL\u2019s proposal. The left-wing party highlighted that it would assume government to improve economic conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purchasing power of the population has collapsed. We need a functional government and not a new season of political conflicts. We all, including us, have our share of responsibility for reaching this point. The time has come to come up with concrete solutions that put Romanians first,\u201d Grindeanu announced at the press conference after the PSD meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cPSD wants autonomy over the governing program. If it were a PSD government, it would not be afraid and would not stand with its hat in hand in front of anyone. The objective is economic relaunch,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Grindeanu was reportedly backed by numerous PSD leaders across Romania during the party meeting.\u00a0The mayor of Pite\u0219ti, Cristian Gentea, and the president of the Suceava County Council, Gheorghe \u0218oldan, were those who officially proposed him for the position of prime minister, according to Antena 3<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The initiative was also supported by the mayor of Gala\u021bi, Ionu\u021b Pucheanu, who quickly consolidated a consensus within the party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Social Democrats\u2019 announcement comes just one day after consultations at the Cotroceni Palace. Yesterday, Nicu\u0219or Dan stated that discussions with parliamentary parties had outlined the possibility of forming a minority political government, supported by a parliamentary agreement. The president also made a call to parliamentary parties to speed up negotiations and establish a governing formula.<\/p>\n

Grindeanu previously served as prime minister of Romania in 2017, and was deposed by his own party under the direction of then-leader Liviu Dragnea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Inquam Photos|George Calin)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD) unanimously voted on Wednesday, June 23, to return to government with its leader, Sorin Grindeanu, as prime minister. The party, formerly part of the governing centrist coalition, voted in May to bring down the Liberal-led Ilie Bolojan government despite earlier agreements.\u00a0 The decision also comes after a proxy of […]<\/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-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","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=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}