After 20 days without a Government, new consultations with the president are expected. When a new prime minister can be appointed

Almost three weeks after the Bolojan Government was dismissed through the censure motion submitted by PSD and AUR, the parties failed to find a common ground to form the future Government. New consultations are expected in Cotroceni, formal or informal, with party leaders and there is a possibility that the prime minister will be appointed this week as well.

The president will convene party leaders again this week to discuss, after last week's consultations ended without any results. It remains to be seen whether these new consultations will be formally announced or informal. In fact, the president also held such discussions that were not public with the leaders of the coalition in the sensitive moments of the government.

It is not excluded that this week, the president will nominate a candidate for the position of prime minister who will then try to form a majority for the installation of the Government, HotNews sources say.

The option of a technocrat prime minister is still on the table, which is accepted by PSD, but not by USR and PNL, who say that the technocrat would become a screen for PSD.

Ilie Bolojan declared, a week ago, at the end of the discussion with the president, that “PNL will no longer support a Government and will no longer participate in a Government in which PSD will also be found. We will not support any Government with a technocrat prime minister, in which PSD will also be found. In the context in which PSD will be in government, PNL will be in opposition”.

UDMR still supports the restoration of the old coalition, they also say that the prime minister needs to be political, who has “political responsibility”, but they do not rule out the technocrat prime minister.

Who are the technocrats considered by the president

Nicușor Dan, on the other hand, has a list of options for the position of technocrat prime minister.

Among the names on the president's list are Radu Burnete, presidential advisor for economic issues, Eugen Tomac, MEP and honorary advisor to the president, Alexandru Nazare, the current Minister of Finance, or Delia Velculescu, head of the IMF mission in South Africa, according to some political sources, as reported by HotNews since last Wednesday.

According to other sources, quoted on Monday, May 25, by Digi24, the name that would be the preferred option, with the highest chances of being appointed prime minister, is Eugen Tomac.

In the hypothesis that Nicușor Dan would propose a technocrat to lead a Government made up of political ministers, without the USR and PNL votes – 135 in total, he would gather 223 votes, i.e. 10 less than the 233 that represent the minimum necessary for the Government to pass the Parliament's vote of confidence.

Small party votes are not guaranteed

Everything, under the conditions in which all parliamentarians of the UDMR (31 votes), of the national minorities (17 votes), United for Romania (16 votes), PACE – First Romania (11 votes) and non-affiliated (21 votes) would vote for the investiture of the Government.

However, at the end of the consultations that took place last Thursday between the president and the small formations in Parliament, it emerged that the vote of these parliamentarians is not guaranteed. Some of them said they will vote for whatever the president proposes, others demand a “sanitary cordon against extremism” or say their vote depends on what the future Executive's government program will look like, and others invoke early elections to get out of the crisis.

At PSD, all options are on the table

If the rest of the parties have drawn red lines that they are not willing to cross, such as collaboration with the PSD or the AUR, in the case of the UDMR, in the social-democrats camp all options are on the table – from the government led by a technocrat, to restoring the coalition or even a single-color Government made up only of the PSD.

In order to obtain the necessary votes for any of the variants of a possible Government without appealing to the support of the AUR, PSD also relies on betrayals from the PNL, on parliamentarians who will vote for the Government even if the party's decision will be contrary.