Romanian Democrat Liberals To Take Over Social Democrats’ Prefect, State Secretary Seats

Democrat liberal sources told MEDIAFAX prior to the government meeting on Thursday that the government plans to talk on dismissing the prefects backed by the social democrats.

Romanian social democrat ministers in the center-left coalition government handed in their resignations Thursday after President Traian Basescu endorsed the democrat liberal prime minster’s decision to sack social democrat Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Dan Nica.

Social democrats held the ministries of Interior, Education, Agriculture, Labor, SMEs, Foreign Affairs, Environment and the Ministry for the Relation with Parliament. Social democrat state secretaries also resigned out of solidarity.