Romanian Liberals Ready To Be In Opposition If Tariceanu Isn’t PM – Official

"We are waiting for the final results, to see who the new lawmakers are and we’ll meet this afternoon to decide our next moves. The party’s position, as we have already said, is to build a governing program around Tariceanu’s plan to relaunch economic growth and with liberals leading the government,” Olteanu said.

Olteanu said liberals will not hesitate to switch to opposition if negotiations fail and Tariceanu isn’t appointed prime minister.

“If a majority forms around the liberals’ economic relaunch plan, it would be natural for liberals to lead that government and the prime minister would have to be liberals. If a majority is form around another governing program, those who have mad it will lead the government and we won’t hesitate to switch to opposition if we can’t make up a majority," he said.

Asked whether the winning parties had any meeting so far, Olteanu said no, except maybe for informal meetings between colleagues.
"We’ll keep you posted on what happens in the following days,” he added.

Romania’s Democratic Liberal Party leader Emil Boc said earlier Tuesday the party’s main choice to form a majority in Parliament is the Liberal Party, but that is not the only option, but democrat liberals don’t fancy Tariceanu for prime minister.

Social democrats said they will discuss with all other parties with high scores to negotiate a majority in parliament and form the future government.

Final results released Tuesday showed social democrats in the lead with 33.09% for the Chamber of Deputies and 34.16% for Senate, followed by democrat liberals with 32.36% and 33.57, liberals with 18.57% and 18.74 and the Hungarian minority party with 6.17% and 6.39%.

As no party gained an outright majority, the major contenders will meet to negotiate in view of forming a majority in Parliament and making up the future Government.