Romania’s pro-European government has collapsed after losing a confidence vote, unleashing renewed political turmoil less than a year after the ruling coalition was sworn in and with the far right surging in the polls.
“This censure motion is false, cynical and artificial,” the liberal prime minister, Ilie Bolojan, told parliamentarians before the vote on Tuesday. “Any country in a multitude of crises would try to consolidate governments, not to change them.”
The motion, tabled by the Social Democrats (PSD), the largest party in parliament, and the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), won 281 votes in the 464-seat parliament. Bolojan’s PNL party and its USR allies did not vote. ---More...
Padł rząd zainstalowany przez UE/NATO w Rumunii. Wraca Georgescu, stanął dziś przed ogromną armią zwolenników, którzy przybyli, aby odzyskać własny kraj. "Nie chcemy ingerencji NATO i UE. Georgescu jest naszym prezydentem! - skandowali. pic.twitter.com/4OlRMar2yO
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