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After Prime Minister Florin Situ’s coalition collapsed due to a development fund dispute last month, no confidence motion was filed.
The Romanian Parliament overthrew the minority government of Prime Minister Florin Situ, who has been in power for nine months, by a vote of no confidence, deepening the ongoing political crisis.
Tuesday’s motion was put forward by the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) and was supported by former alliance partners USR-Plus and the far-right AUR party. It passed with 281 votes; only 234 were needed.
Romania, one of the poorest member states of the European Union, has been in a political deadlock for a month, threatening its economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and its efforts to reduce its huge double deficit.
National Liberal Party leader Situ will continue to serve as the caretaker prime minister until the new prime minister wins the trust of parliament.
Last month, after the relatively new centrist USR withdrew its minister due to a dispute over the Regional Development Fund, depriving him of a majority of seats in Parliament, his coalition was disbanded. USR subsequently filed a motion of no confidence and refused to return to the government until Citu was overthrown.
President Klaus Johannes called on political parties to discuss the formation of a new government next week, and then he nominates a new prime minister, probably from his ally Situ’s centrist Liberal Party.
“Romania must be governed. We are in a pandemic, an energy price crisis… Now it is another political crisis. We need a mature [political] Stand,” Johannes told reporters.
“In order to give all parties more time to come up with a solution, I will only hold consultations next week.”
Early elections are unlikely because the parliament needs to reject two successive prime minister proposals by Iohannis within 60 days, and the coalition parties stated that they are determined to quickly rebuild the government in view of the current economic challenges.
Iohannis and coalition partners including the Hungarian UDMR and USR stated that the current three-party reform of the political system is Romania’s best plan, monitoring the EU-supported 29.2 billion euro (33.9 billion U.S. dollars) recovery plan.
The most likely result is the restoration of the previous alliance, which has a 57% majority, but the prime minister is different. This is the only condition for the Soviet Union to rejoin the government.
“We are open to rebuilding our centrist ruling coalition,” said USR senior Danbana.
The ongoing crisis may hinder Romania’s efforts to deal with the shocking surge in COVID-19 infection in 19 million countries, which currently puts the country’s hospitals under severe pressure.
On Tuesday, Romania recorded the highest daily number of COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began-15,037 cases.
At the same time, Romania’s vaccination campaign lags behind many other EU countries, with only one-third of the population fully vaccinated.
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