Marcel Ciolacu resigned from his post as Romanian Prime Minister on Monday, one day after the Big Coalition Antonescu Coalition Coalition did not succeed in obtaining a place in the runoff of the presidential elections.
Ciolacu already offered her resignation last December after not having qualified for the second round of the canceled and canceled elections, who saw the ultra -nationalist candidate Calin Georgescu come from nowhere to win the first round.
On Sunday, the Big Tent Coalition – which included the PSD of Ciolacu Center -Gauche, the Liberal PNL Party and the Hungarian Minority Party UDMR / RMDSZ – did not inspire the Romanians to support Antonescu during the first round of the presidential vote repeated after the unprecedented scandal canceled in December, caused a significant height in the block.
The current harvesting of PSD ministers decided to leave the government with Ciolacu, following accusations that they did not do enough to help Antonescu guarantee the first position.
Sunday evening, the Liberals had already blamed the PSD not to do enough to mobilize their voters across the country, especially in rural areas, to throw their weight behind Antonescu.
According to Euronews Romania sources, PNL has asked the Prime Minister in office to resign in favor of the acting president Ilie Bolojan, more fracturing the alliance.
While the PSD ministers will remain in office in the 45 -day temporary period, Bolojan will now have to appoint a new Prime Minister, who will have to obtain approval from the Romanian Parliament.
Sunday evening, the nationalist candidate George Simion won the first round of the presidential election of Romania with around 40.5% of the votes.
In a political thriller at the end of the evening, the official count saw the independent candidate of the Outsider, Sucușor Dan presenting himself in second place and runoff, eliminating Antonescu out of the race – a shocking result the traditional political establishment in the Member State of the EU and NATO.
Pre-electoral surveys have all favored Simion to win the first round. However, the result of Dan, the mayor of Bucharest, sent a clear message to the management coalition, which joined Antonescu as candidate of the main party.
On Monday, PSD decided not to support any of the two runoff candidates. Meanwhile, PNL announced that he voted unanimously to support Dan in the vote, which was to be held in two weeks.
