Political changes after the first round of the presidential election. Romanian Prime Minister announced resignation
PSD will withdraw from the pro -European government coalition.
Bucharest. Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolaca announced his resignation.
A joint candidate of the ruling coalition on Sunday’s first round Presidential elections He finished third and did not advance to the second round.
Cooluc said that his Social Democratic Party (PSD) would leave the pro -European government coalition after the election failure.
Ministers on this side should temporarily stay in the cabinet until the new parliamentary majority is clear after the second round of the presidential election.
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« I suggested to my colleagues that we leave the government coalition, which implicitly leads to my resignation from the post of Prime Minister, » Coolca told reporters after the meeting of his party.
« We saw how the Romanians voted yesterday, which means that the ruling coalition has no legitimacy, at least not in this form, » AFP quoted it.
Crin Antonescu coalition candidate in the first round of repeated elections of the new Head of State was placed on Sunday to third.
He was just overtaken by the impartial mayor of Bucharest, Nicušor Dan and came first with a clear lead of the far right -wing Eurosceptic politician George Simion.
The management of PSD on Monday also decided that the Social Democrats before the second round of voting 18 will not publicly support one or the other candidate.
Simion’s victory could mean a shift in Romania’s foreign policy, AFP said. The head of the nationalist alliance for the unification of the Romanians (Aur) is a fan President USA Donald Trump and criticizes the « Brussels non -elected bureaucrats » who, according to him, interfere with the Romanian elections.
Constitutional Court Romania annulled the presidential elections last December after unexpectedly won the former Aur Calin Georgescu member in the first round at the end of November.
This happened after the accusations of interference Russia into the elections that Moscow denied. The decision has triggered the worst political crisis in the country in decades.
