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Romanian Opposition Parties To Ask President To Designate Sibiu Mayor For PM

Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana said Wednesday, after Prime Minister-designate Lucian Croitoru lost a confidence vote in Parliament, President Traian Basescu will be asked to designate Sibiu mayor Klaus Johannis as prime minister.
Romanian Opposition Parties To Ask President To Designate Sibiu Mayor For PM
04 nov. 2009, 16:38, English

Geoana said social democrats, liberals and the Hungarian minority party back Johannis for prime minister and will again forward this nomination to Basescu.

Croitoru, whom Basescu designated last month despite the opposition’s insitence on Johannis, lost a confidence vote in Parliament Wednesday as 250 lawmakers voted against his proposed government, leaving the country stuck in a political deadlock.

The government needed 236 votes to be instated.

Croitoru, an economist, told lawmakers before the vote the country needs a stable government, with full powers to carry on with IMF-required reforms, adding a potential halt of the country’s agreement with the IMF would bear serious consequences for its external credibility, more so than if the deal had never been signed.

Besides a deepening recession and social unrest, Romania is faced with increased political instability after its government collapsed in a no-confidence vote mid-October, and is in desperate need of the coming two tranches of a EUR20 billion IMF-led loan package.