Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, said on Monday that he does not see a coalition government other than with the National Liberal Party (PNL) after the elections.

„This government will function until the December elections. After December 21, Romania, as is normal, will have a new government. From my point of view, because it’s normal to make a projection, because we also have a budget to approve and I would still like to immediately approve the budget after the elections. (…) From my point of view, the new government will be sworn in on December 23,” Ciolacu said at the PSD headquarters.

He made a comparison between the current executive and the former right-wing government, when the portfolios „drawn out of the hat”, context in which he said he does not see a coalition in the future other than with the PNL.

„The way things have looked and making a comparison, however, between an exclusively right-wing government, from my point of view, in the future I don’t see any other coalition government than with the PNL. Don’t you want to let the Romanians first? There was no swearing at each other. Remember when we had a right-wing government. Remember how the USR [Save Romania Union] ministers didn’t come to work, how they refused, what scandals there were, how that government was formed – it was a drawing of the lots. The then leader of the PNL said that they placed the portfolios in a hat and drew them out. I think there is a huge difference between the current government and the right-wing government,” the prime minister explained.

AGERPRES