Romania’s President refuses new ministers’ appointments
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Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis on August 28 rejected all three minister candidates prime minister Viorica Dancila sent to him before the Government crisis emerged this week: Dana Gârbovan for the Justice Ministry, Iulian Iancu for deputy prime minister post and Serban Valeca for the Education Ministry. He deemed the proposals as unacceptable and asked PM Dancila to go to the Parliament to get a confirmation vote for her new cabinet after the junior ruling party ALDE left the ruling coalition with PSD and its ministers resigned from the Government.
“The current Government needs a new confirmation in Parliament through a procedure that I request,” President Iohannis stated. “After the elections (the general elections next year), with a new majority, constitutionally, we can do much more together,” Iohannis continued, according to G4media.ro.
The president criticized the PSD and ALDE for the chaotic governing process in the last two and a half years. He said the Government should have resigned after the result of the elections for the EU Parliament when Romanians expressed their disapproval of the way the two parties governed Romania and that the PSD government was only kept alive by the configuration of the local Parliament, which resulted after the December 2016 elections. He added he would not endorse in any way the current Government.
Romania’s Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă vowed on Tuesday her Social Democratic party would not lose power despite being abandoned by their coalition partner and facing an opposition no-confidence vote.
“I want to offer everybody the guarantee that the government continues to do its job and that we’ll ensure a competent governing until the end”, Social Democrat leader Dăncilă wrote in a Facebook post.
She was speaking as three ministers resigned a day after their party, the Alliance for Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), announced it was quitting the ruling coalition.
The leader of Save Romania Union Dan Barna stated that his party would support a non-confidence motion against the Government of prime minister Viorica Dancila and would support a Government formed by another majority but under no circumstances would his party partake a ruling coalition together with Victor Ponta or Calin Popescu Tariceanu.
“Ruling alongside Tariceanu or Ponta is simply unacceptable for our electorate,” Barna stated, quoted by Hotnews.ro.
