The coalition agreement in Romania foresees an initial leadership of the PNL for 18 months, followed by an identical period of the PSD. The Romanian Prime Minister resigned and gave rise to the rotation process.
The Romanian Prime Minister, the liberal Nicolae Ciuca, submitted his resignation, initiating the process of rotating the leadership of the government with the coalition partners of the Social Democratic Party (PSD).
According to the agreement between the liberal party PNL and the PSD, the next prime minister will be the social democrat Marcel Ciolacu, until now president of the Lower House of Parliament. The PSD is the majority partner of the ruling coalition, formed in November 2021 with the PNL and the UDMR, a political formation that represents the Hungarian minority in Romania.
The coalition agreement established that the rotation process would begin with the transfer of the head of government to the PNL, for 18 months, followed by a period of 18 months with the PSD as the head of the executive, until the general elections, scheduled for the end of 2024.
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After being nominated by the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, as a candidate for prime minister, Ciolacu will have 10 days to request Parliament’s vote of confidence for his government program.
The three coalition parties – which together have a two-thirds majority in Parliament and the Senate – have been negotiating in recent weeks the composition of the Government under the leadership of the PSD.
The coalition rotation was scheduled for May 25. but a major teachers’ strike, the biggest in 18 years, forced a postponement of the transfer of powers. Ciuca resigned this Monday, minutes before the two majority unions in the education system called off their strikes, when the government granted them the required wage increases.
Source: Observadora
