Marathon consultations, today, in Cotroceni. Nicușor Dan is seen with the parliamentary parties. Major theme on the agenda / what do political leaders say

The economic and political situation of Romania will be the main topic addressed by President Nicușor Dan at the consultations convened on Wednesday at the Cotroceni Palace with the parliamentary parties, but also with a delegation of the 26 non -affiliated parliamentarians, part of them coming from PO.

Finding the solutions to solve the problem of the budget deficit is the main priority of the discussions that the new president convened. Nicușor Dan repeatedly said after winning the elections that he wants an agreement on the government program between the parties that will form the future government before the discussion on the names of those who will be part of the Executive.

Nicușor Dan estimated that the future government will be invested within a “3-4 weeks”. He will have to appoint a new prime minister, given that Marcel Ciolacu announced, on May 5, the resignation of the prime minister and the breaking of the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition, after Crin Antonescu missed the entry 2 of the presidential elections. The interim government is now led by Cătălin Predoiu. The law provides for a term of 45 days until the appointment of a full government.

“I think it is good for all things to be established beforehand so as not to have tensions in the Government. I do not want to hurry with the formation of the government. Let's take a three to four weeks,” said Nicușor Dan, on May 22, at Black Sea and Balkans Security Forum 2025.

The prioriorities announced by the new president

In the investment speech held on Monday in Parliament, immediately after taking the oath, Nicușor Dan said that, “in the short term, Romania has a problem, the problem of deficit”.

“Romania spends too much, the Romanian state spends too much about what it can afford, and this issue can discuss the financial stability that we all worked in all these years,” said Nicușor Dan in the speech held in Parliament.

In the speech in which he listed the main directions he wants to draw for the five years of mandate, Nicușor Dan mentioned various fields: from environmental education, from health to justice, from foreign policy to culture.

“It is in the national interest that Romania has a government supported by a parliamentary majority. It is in the national interest that this majority assume its fiscal reforms that Romania needs. It is in the national interest that Romania will convey the financial markets. Following, ”said the new president.

Enter the PSD in government?

As for the formation of the future government, the new president stressed that “it is in the national interest that Romania will have a government supported by a parliamentary majority.” The only option for the future cabinet to have a parliamentary majority is that the PSD accepts to enter the government with PNL, USR and UDMR.

If the last three parties have stated openly that they want to be in the future Executive, the interim leader of the PSD, Sorin Grindeanu, said that the party has not made a decision and that he will come to the discussions with the president with an open mandate. He claimed that a majority opinion was for the party to enter the opposition.

However, Grindeanu was contradicted by several voices from the PSD, including Constantin Toma, who said that there is a majority in favor of staying in government. The mayor of Buzau has accused the current leadership of “saying an inadequate” when announces that it is not a clear current in favor of a decision.

Asked how he will convince the Social Democrats to enter the governance, Nicușor Dan suggested that politicians have to assume problems: “I think we, politicians, we are here to serve society. That is what we must be. At this moment, the society has a fiscal difficulty. which the society has.

The order in which parties enter the consultations convened on Wednesday

The consultations from Cotroceni will start at 9.00, and the last will go to discussions the non -affiliated parliamentarians, from 7 pm.

The Program of Consultations:

• 09:00: Social Democratic Party (PSD);
• 10:30: The National Liberal Party (PNL);
• 12:00: Union Save Romania (USR);
• 13:30: Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR);
• 15:00: the parliamentary group of national minorities;
• 16:00: Alliance for the Union of Romanians (gold);
• 5:00 pm: SOS Romania Party;
• 18:00: The Party of Young People (Pot);
• 19:00: non -affiliated parliamentarians.

Who is part of the party delegationsOr

Five people will be part of each delegation. The exception will be the group of national minorities, who transmitted that “each deputy represents another organization, so we proposed to go the whole group and the president agreed, but only in this phase of the negotiations will everyone go”

The PSD will go to Cotroceni with a delegation formed by the interim president Sorin Grindeanu, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Ciprian Șerban, the mayor of Craiovei, Lia Olguța Vasilescu, the president of the Suceava County Council, Gheorghe Hâldan and the president of CJ Dâmbovița, Corneliu Ștefan.

PNL has officially announced that it will be represented in Cotroceni by the leaders at the top of the party: President Ilie Bolojan, Secretary General Adrian Veștea and first vice-presidents Cătălin Predoiu, Ciprian Ciucu and Dan Motreanu.

From the UDMR will go to Cotroceni Kelemen Hunor, Cseke Attila, Tanczos Barna, Csibi Attila Zoltán, Turos Lóránd and Miklós Zoltán.

I can have decided to participate in the meeting at the Cotroceni Palace. Anamaria Gavrilă, Daniel Grofu, Răzvan Chiriță and Gabriela Porumboiu will be part of the delegation.

USR, SOS and the group of non -affiliated parliamentarians have not officially announced the delegation with which they will participate in consultations.

Gold has announced that it will not work because he does not want to think of the consultations.

At the consultations, five representatives of the 26 non -affiliated parliamentarians – 17 deputies and 9 senators will be mege, including 15 from Pot.

From the delegation of non -affiliated parliamentarians who will go to Cotroceni will be the deputy Gigi Becali, a gold resignation.

“The non -affiliates will force themselves if they have a leader, but I do not stand to lead some parliamentarians gathered from all the cos. I am not interested in being the leader of anyone, as I do not lead any party. And I do not have to agree with what I propose.

What did the party leaders say before negotiations

“The PSD will go to Cotroceni with openness regarding the negotiations for the formation of the future government and with solutions for the issues discussed (…) We are not far from gold, we are a constructive party, which has solutions. We will put these solutions on the discussion table and then we will see what will be the president's reaction, the reaction of the other parties, and only then we can talk about the new parties,” Telephone intervention at Digi 24.

The PSD spokesman said that some colleagues are for the entry to government, others are against, but that the party's decision is to “go on” first and foremost “on some principles, with all the opening”, because “it is an extremely important thing”.

PNL, USR and UDMR want to government

All pro-European parties must be in the executive, and those of “good faith” must have “flexibility” and “openness” for a common government program, said PNL Secretary General, Adrian Veștea, after having a discussion with Ilie Bolojan, who resumed his position as interim president.

Asked if PNL will accept a prime minister from the PSD, Veștea replied: “I think what we should talk in the next period is to find a formula, to create a government that has a large majority. I do not think we should close the door to any discussion.”

He mentioned Ilie Bolojan as the right version of the prime minister of the future government. “He is the person who is expected by the Romanians, is a credible person, a person who has shown in public life that he is able to make these reforms.”

The day before the consultations at the Cotroceni Palace convened by President Nicușor Dan, the USR and PNL interim leaders had a discussion in Ilie Bolojan's Senate Office on Tuesday.

Asked if the USR enters a government in which the PSD gives the prime minister, Dominic Fritz stressed that the party wants the Liberal leader to be the one who takes over the head of the government.

“We want Ilie Bolojan to be the prime minister of Romania. It is also the proposal and desire of the president and I am confident that we will be able to reach these negotiations in such results,” said Fritz.

Both USR and UDMR; They stressed that tomorrow the discussions are based on economic reforms and not on the composition of the government.

“We have a broad term, open to discuss what is to be done in the near future and of course, if necessary, the government formula, the government structure, especially the government program. Tomorrow (no. Wednesday) the discussion is about the budget, on the economic situation. So tomorrow we will not talk about what follows.