President Nicu\u015for Dan has called on parties to return to talks and negotiate a parliamentary majority that could support the appointment of a prime minister. The president\u2019s appeal came after talks held on Friday, June 26, with the leaders of the former governing coalition.<\/p>\n
The Social Democrat Party (PSD) has proposed its president,<\/a> Sorin Grindeanu, for the job, while the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union Party (USR), and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) put forth Liberal member of the European Parliament Siegfriend Mure\u0219an<\/a>.<\/p>\n The president said the country was back in \u201cthe political deadlock we had thought resolved.\u201d He said that previous consultations with the parties had shown that a minority PSD government seemed the solution that would rally a parliamentary majority. According to the president, PNL had committed to voting for a minority PSD government, on certain conditions related to the governing program, but had since shifted its position.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is the responsibility of the parties to negotiate among themselves a majority for any government configuration they deem appropriate. I ask them to return to dialogue. Romania needs a government with full powers,\u201d president Dan said in a social media post.<\/p>\n In response to the president\u2019s statements, PNL president and acting prime minister Ilie Bolojan said PNL \u201cnever promised a blank cheque to Grindeanu,\u201d but a political agreement that could form the basis of a decision regarding the establishment of a future government. Bolojan said no such agreement had been reached.<\/p>\n PSD, PNL, USR, and UDMR had formed a governing coalition making up a parliamentary majority until early May, when PSD sided with the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) to topple the government led by PNL leader Ilie Bolojan after a May 5 no-confidence vote in Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n The president has made two PM nominations since. On June 4, he nominated his advisor Eugen Tomac<\/a>, 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. On June 14, he nominated Adrian Ve\u0219tea<\/a>, the president of Bra\u0219ov County Council and the vice-president of PNL, after Tomac gave up his mandate to form a government.<\/p>\n The cabinet put forth by Adrian Ve\u0219tea failed to obtain the investiture vote in Parliament on June 22. He lacked the support of his own party, which voted to exclude him, alongside other party leaders, at a congress prompted by Vestea\u2019s surprise appointment as PM without PNL\u2019s knowledge or approval.<\/p>\n simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n (Photo source: presidency.ro)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Nicu\u015for Dan has called on parties to return to talks and negotiate a parliamentary majority that could support the appointment of a prime minister. The president\u2019s appeal came after talks held on Friday, June 26, with the leaders of the former governing coalition. The Social Democrat Party (PSD) has proposed its president, Sorin Grindeanu, […]<\/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-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","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=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}