With whom do UDMR and AUR go to the consultations in Cotroceni. The announcement made by Diana Sosoacă
The main parliamentary parties have established their delegations for the consultations on Monday, May 18, in Cotroceni, where President Nicușor Dan has scheduled discussions throughout the day with the political formations represented in the Legislature.
George Simion, Diana Sosoaca and Kelemen Hunor. PHOTO Collage Inquam Photos and Mediafax
Consultations in Cotroceni start at 9:00 a.m., with the PSD delegation. Followed by AUR, PNL, USR, UDMR, the Parliamentary Group of National Minorities, SOS and POT.
UDMR: full delegation, officially announced
The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania will participate in consultations with a team made up of:
Kelemen Hunor
Miklós Zoltan
Turós Lorand
Tánczos Barna
Cseke Attila.
Kelemen Hunor, the president of the UDMR, conveyed on Friday, May 15, at the meeting of the Council of Union Representatives in Cluj-Napoca, that the formation wants to participate in the government after the elections, but does not rule out the option of the opposition, which it does not consider a threat to the party.
AUR, delegation of three members
The Alliance for the Union of Romanians will be represented by:
George Simion
Dan Dungaciu
Petrisor Peiu.
The Alliance for the Union of Romanians sent, in a statement, that the president must respect the constitutional procedure and designate a candidate for the position of prime minister only after the consultations have been completed.
“We want these consultations to be real, effective and loyal, not a legal formality. The parties called to consultations must be able to present their position, the political solution they propose and the conditions under which they can support or participate in the formation of a Government. AUR is the second parliamentary party and represents the will expressed by the vote of millions of Romanians. The President is obliged to respect the constitutional procedure, the role of the Parliament and the principle of democratic representation. The president has a margin of appreciation in appointing the candidate for the position of prime minister, but this appreciation is manifested after consultations, not before them. It must be exercised depending on the parliamentary configuration, the possibility of forming a majority and the result of the consultations provided by art. 103 of the Constitution“, it is stated in a press release of the AUR sent on Sunday,
Diana Soșoacă: the decision to participate, left “in the hands of the people”
The leader of SOS Romania, Diana Șoșoacă, announced, in a video message, that she will ask the Romanians if the party should participate in the consultations in Cotroceni.
Șoșoacă states that neither she nor SOS Romania recognize Nicușor Dan as president, but emphasizes that the Presidential Administration represents the Romanian people, regardless of who holds the position of head of state.
Sosoacă claims that the invitation addressed to SOS and AUR would have come on the basis of “huge scandal” generated by his efforts to suspend the president.
“I would like to know from people if they would like me to go, to meet with Nicușor Dan, and people have to think very carefully about this. So it's not because he wanted to, but because it's a huge scandal and I made a lot of reports and filed this suspension of the president. Otherwise he wouldn't have invited either AUR, or SOS, or POT. Believe me! Maybe they invited POT, well I don't know, POT and abolished“, said Sosoacă, in the video message.
Consultations at Cotroceni: who is part of the PNL delegation going to Nicușor Dan
By the time the article was published, POT had not announced the delegation with which the party would go to the consultations on Monday, May 18.
With whom do PSD and PNL go to consultations
We remind you that the National Liberal Party announced on Sunday, May 17, the composition of the delegation that will go to the consultations in Cotroceni on Monday, convened by the president Nicușor Dan to appoint the future prime minister: Ilie Bolojan, Dan Motreanu, Cătălin Predoiu, Ciprian Ciucu and Adrian Veștea.
Dominic Fritz, president of USR and mayor of Timişoara, said on Saturday, after the meeting with interim prime minister Ilie Bolojan, that USR and PNL coordinate their positions in the perspective of the political consultations convened on Monday at the Cotroceni Palace by president Nicuşor Dan. According to him, the two formations will convey that they cannot support a form of government in which PSD is found.
The PSD delegation that will be present at the consultations at the Cotroceni Palace will be made up of: Sorin Grindeanu, Claudiu Manda, Marian Neacșu, Gheorghe Șoldan and Alfred Simonis.
Consultations will take place on Monday, May 18, 2026, according to the following schedule:
- 09:00 – Social Democratic Party (PSD);
- 10:00 am – Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR);
- 11:00 a.m. – National Liberal Party (PNL);
- 12:00 – Union Save Romania (USR);
- 13:00 – Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR);
- 14:00 – Parliamentary Group of National Minorities;
- 15:00 – SOS Romania Party (SOS);
- 16:00 – Young People's Party (POT).
Nicusor Dan PHOTO Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
With whom does PSD enter the negotiations in Cotroceni with Nicușor Dan
Pursuant to the provisions of art. 103 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution, the President of Romania, Nicusor Dan, will invite to the Cotroceni Palace the presidents and representatives of the political parties and formations represented in the Romanian Parliament, for consultations regarding the appointment of the candidate for the position of Prime Minister”the Presidential Administration announced on Thursday.
