Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said that no party will be able to govern alone after this year’s parliamentary elections and will have to join an electoral alliance, emphasizing that the Romanians’ vote will be decisive in this regard.

He was asked whether the Social Democratic Party (PSD) has options to form a government without the National Liberal Party (PNL) after the legislative elections, in the context of statements made by PNL leader Nicolae Ciuca at the party’s National Council, according to which the liberals would like to form a right-wing coalition after the December elections.

„You know that there is a big difference between desire and possibility. I, for one, was a contemporary of a large right-wing coalition that led to a disaster in Romania. And you know better than me this and you know why the Social Democratic Party was forced to enter government after eight months of right-wing government. At this moment, I no longer want… (…) I am firmly convinced of one thing: that no party will be able to form a government alone. They will have to form political alliances, of that I am firmly convinced. Romanians will decide the rest,” Ciolacu said.

The head of the Executive made the statements on Monday, on his departure from a meeting with the ambassadors of the EU Member States, during a working breakfast hosted by the Hungarian Ambassador to Romania, Zakonyi Botond, in the context of the country’s holding the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

AGERPRES