PNL and USR make a common front during the PSD referendum on the fate of Bolojan. “There is coordination, just like three weeks ago”

PNL and USR will hold “coordination” meetings on Monday evening, according to HotNews sources. Both meetings are taking place while the PSD internal referendum is also taking place, where the social democrats will vote whether to withdraw their support for liberal Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.

The PNL meeting will take place from 18:00, in Modrogan, and the USR meeting will take place at 18:30, at Vila Lac. The presidents of the county organizations will participate in both events.

“There is coordination between the two meetings, just like three weeks ago,” sources from the two parties told HotNews.

Three weeks ago, the two parties decided in separate meetings, which took place on the same day, that if the PSD creates a political crisis, neither the liberals nor those from the USR will make a government alliance with the social democrats.

Also on Monday, PSD decides whether to withdraw its support to Ilie Bolojan

In the PSD, an internal consultation will take place, on Monday, from 5 p.m., at the Parliament. Approximately 200 management members will be physically present, and the rest of the participants, up to 5,000, will take part in the discussion via video conference.

The meeting is expected to last approximately two hours. Voting will be online. All PSD members will scan a QR code, through an application that the social democrats started using in August 2024, at the congress where Marcel Ciolacu was voted to be the PSD candidate in the presidential elections.

A day before the consultation, the general secretary of the PSD, Claudiu Manda, assured the social democrats present on Sunday at the conference for the election of the PSD Sector 4 leadership that Ilie Bolojan will no longer lead the Government. The MEP claims that the PNL leader violated the two red lines of the governing partners.

“Let's not reduce the purchasing power of Romanians, let's continue the level of public investments, such as hospitals, highways, public lighting. Today we are in a situation where these red lines are violated”, argued Claudiu Manda.

Ilie Bolojan said that he is not resigning

On Wednesday evening, Ilie Bolojan was at the PNL headquarters in Bucharest, where he told the liberals that he does not intend to resign as prime minister, according to HotNews sources.

“Most of us clearly conveyed to him that we do not want him to resign, and his answer was just as firm: he will not do it,” said Silviu Feroiu, PNL general councilor in the Capital City Hall, in a post on Facebook.

On Thursday, Claudiu Manda said that the PSD will withdraw its ministers from the Government if the party decides not to continue with Ilie Bolojan at the head of the Government, and the current prime minister refuses to leave the position voluntarily.

PSD sources tell HotNews that if Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan does not resign even after the social democrats withdraw their ministers from the Government, then there are high chances of a censure motion in Parliament for PSD to vote, thus forcing Ilie Bolojan's departure.

Senator USR: “PSD should join hands with AUR”

USR Senator Ștefan Pălărie recently stated that all PSD demands were accepted by the coalition, as well as that the social democrats agreed to Ilie Bolojan taking over the position of prime minister in June 2025, when “no one flocked for this position”.

“PSD must understand that if it goes down this path, very well, to join hands with AUR and come to the government,” said Pălărie.

How UDMR is positioned

The leader of the UDMR deputies, Csoma Botond, told HotNews on Wednesday that he did not believe that the Union would position itself against the Government and also rejected the possibility of withdrawing its ministers in turn.

“Now, personally, I don't think it will be such a decision, for us ministers to withdraw. We said that this country needs stability. I don't think that on top of these superimposed crises there is also a political crisis missing. We are not umbilically tied, so to speak, neither to the PSD nor to the PNL,” he said.