Romania’s pro-EU government has collapsed after losing a vote of no-confidence in the country\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), lost this afternoon’s vote, bringing an end to a four-party coalition government after 10 months in power.<\/p>\n
Mr Bolojan had led a minority government since 21 April when the Social Democrats (PSD) – the largest party in parliament – called for his resignation and left the coalition.<\/p>\n
Members of the centre-left PSD had become increasingly critical of the government’s austerity measures, including tax increases and spending cuts to reduce the country\u2019s budget deficit.<\/p>\n
The PSD proposed today\u2019s vote of no-confidence along with the far-right opposition, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), two parties that have ruled out going into government together.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s motion was backed by 281 members of parliament, more than the 233 required for the vote to pass.<\/p>\n
“The problem with this motion is that it does not come up with any alternative,” said Mr Bolojan after today\u2019s vote, as cited by Romanian online news outlet G\u00e2ndul.<\/p>\n
He added: “We are bringing down a government, but we are not saying what we are putting in [its] place.”<\/p>\n
In 2025, Romania had a budget deficit of almost 8% – the highest in the European Union.<\/p>\n
It is a problem that Mr Bolojan said he inherited from previous governments and that the deficit stood at 9.3% in 2024.<\/p>\n
Romania’s next parliamentary election is not due until 2028, though today\u2019s no-confidence vote is unlikely to trigger a snap election.<\/p>\n
The current minority government is expected to continue in an interim capacity, governing with limited powers until Romania’s centrist president, Nicu\u0219or Dan, nominates a new prime minister and invites parties to form a new coalition government.<\/p>\n
Given Mr Dan\u2019s pro-EU stance, it is likely that he will offer the role of prime minister to the leader of another pro-EU party.<\/p>\n
However, the PSD’s collaboration with the far-right for today’s vote has caused tension with its three former government parties, paving the way for difficult talks on the composition of the next coalition.<\/p>\n
If Romania’s parliament does not approve a nominee for prime minister after two votes within the next 60 days, then a parliamentary election will be called.<\/p>\n
Markets have already reacted to the new bout of political instability in the country. Ahead of today’s vote, the Romanian leu fell to a record low against the euro.<\/p>\n
Additional reporting by Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romania’s pro-EU government has collapsed after losing a vote of no-confidence in the country\u2019s parliament. Prime Minister Ilie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-433730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}