Progress Report on the Priorities of the European Commission, 6-20 March, 2019
Weekly Political Review
Updates on GEO 114
On March 15th, 2019, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, president of the Senate announced that there has been a period full of consultations with business representatives from different sectors affected by the GEO 114 and that the normative act was modified. Tăriceanu also mentioned that the consultations will continue, and the changes will be finished by the end of the month.
Progress Report on the Priorities of the European Commission, February 20 - March 6, 2019
Weekly Political Review
Government Reshuffle
On February 21st, 2019, President Klaus Iohannis accepted the proposals of VasileDaniel Suciu for the Ministry of Regional Development and Alexandru-Răzvan Cuc for the position of Minister of Transports and signed the decrees naming the two Deputies as Ministers in the Dăncilă cabinet. Moreover, on February 22nd , 2019, the two Ministers were signed into office. Upcoming Elections On February 27th, 2019, ALDE president Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu announced that ALDE will participate alone in the elections for the European Parliament. As such, on the ALDE lists, the first three candidates are European parliamentarians Norica Nicolai and Renate Weber and former president of the Permanent Electoral Authority Daniel Barbu.
Progress Report on the Priorities of the European Commission, 6 - 20 February, 2019
A PSD Cex meeting has taken place on Tuesday, February 19th, to establish new candidates for the Ministry of Development and the Ministry of Transports. Following the meeting, PM Viorica Dăncilă announced that Răzvan Cuc has been nominated as Minister of Transports and Daniel Suciu was nominated as Minister of Development and Deputy prime minister. Later, on February 20th, 2019, Dăncilă announced that she has sent these propositions to President Klaus Iohannis hoping for a timely response.
Progress Report on the Priorities of the European Commission, January 23rd - February 6, 2019
New resignations from PSD:
On January 29th, 2019, former PM Mihai Tudose announced that he resigned from PSD and moved to Pro-Romania, the party lead by Victor Ponta.
On January 31st, 2019, Deputy Georgian Pop has announced his resignation from PSD. He also mentioned that he has joined Pro-Romania because of Liviu Dragnea who has fueled conflicts between the members of PSD.
On February 1st, 2019, Deputies Oana Silvia Vlăduca and Corina Bogaciu announced that they have also resigned from PSD and joined Pro-Romania.
Considering the above, the PSD-ALDE coalition no longer has a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, with 4 votes short from being able to pass laws. Thus, the coalition now needs to rely on the votes from UDMR.
Progress Report on the Priorities of the European Commission, January 9th -23rd, 2019
Weekly Political Review
Government Reshuffle – updates
On January 17th, 2019, President Klaus Iohannis wrote a letter to PM Viorica Dăncilă arguing that the proposals for the Ministry of Transports and the Ministry of Regional Development do not respect the requirements of the law. More precisely, the Romanian President argued that the that the documentation accompanying the proposal is incomplete, and, therefore, he cannot approve this request. In response, on January 21st, PM Viorica Dăncilă reiterated the proposals, sending the President the required documents.
While members of the opposition, such as Dan Barna, USR, consider that Iohannis’ refusal is justified, PSD members have been outraged by the repeated refusal. Toni Greblă, the Secretary General of the Government argued that Iohannis has no real reason for this refusal.
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