Romanian ex-PM Dancila resigns as PSD party leader

Romania’s former Prime Minister Viorica Dancila quit as the president of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) late on Tuesday, following her poor showing in the presidential election Sunday.

“I understood my colleagues’ opinion, the fact that they want a reset of the party and that someone must take responsibility for the elections result,” she said at the end of a long meeting of the party’s executive committee.

Dancila got some 3.2 million votes (33.5 percent) in the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, which she lost to incumbent Klaus Iohannis. It was the lowest number of votes ever received by a PSD presidential candidate in a second round over the past 30 years.

Marcel Ciolacu, the president of the lower chamber of the Romanian parliament, will be the PSD interim president until a party congress in February elects a new leader.

Via Politico