The designated Prime Minister Lucian Croitoru was rejected after the voting in the Parliament, with 189 votes in favour and 250 against. In this context, The Boc Cabinet II remains as substitute. Romania's President Traian Basescu is expected to either designate another PM or to extend Boc Government's temporary mandate. PSD leader Mircea Geoana declared that the opposition's proposal of naming Klaus Johannis as Prime Minister will be readdressed to the President.
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Romania's President: I can assure you I will designate a responsible PM, and not someone Iliescu and Voiculescu want - Top News - HotNews.ro
"I can assure you that we won't have the Govermant that Mr. lliescu or Mr. Voiculescu want for their desired privatisations. I can assure you I will designate a responsible Prime Minister, behind whom nothing I have mentioned earlier will take place." This is Romania's President first reaction at the Parliament's rejecting the Croitoru Cabinet."I respect mayor Johannis, but he is currently being fooled because I know very well what stood behind him: Iliescu, Hrebenciuc and Vanghelie's interests. Because I will not give them the satisfaction, once more, to have the Government they wish for, Vantu and Voiculescu's TV channels will start flooding with curses and attacks", Traian Basescu stated, quoted by Romanian press agency NewsIn.
