Nastase Government comes to Victoria Palace

The PDSR Government led by Adrian Nastase will take over the Victoria Palace today, as soon as it is voted by the reunited Parliament Chambers and is sworn in at Cotroceni.

Senators and Deputies today will vote on PDSR governing programme, which was submitted to Parliament together with the future Cabinet’s list, two days ago.

Premier Adrian Nastase yesterday said he was expecting a “rainbow vote,” without ruling out rejection from certain MPs. However, this vote has been negotiated with all political parties from the Opposition, except for PRM (Greater Romania Party).

PD (Democratic Party), led by Petre Roman, yesterday signed the joint statement, which includes “priorities for the development of Romania and for integration in the EU and euro-Atlantic structures.”

The document was also signed by PNL (Liberal Party) prime vice-president Valeriu Stoica and UDMR (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania) president Marko Bela. These parties announced their support for the new Cabinet.

Beside the joint statement, PNL and UDMR yesterday concluded a bilateral protocol with PDSR, pledging not to submit or to support any votes of non-confidence for one year. In exchange, PDSR pledged to consult with the Liberals on “major issues regarding the domestic and foreign policy,” and promised UDMR to finalise the local public administration Law.

All the 27 ministers proposed to be part of Nastase government were validated yesterday by the specialised commissions of the two Parliament Chambers.

The new Government is to be invested today by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, reunited in full session.

Mircea Geoana, proposed for the position of Foreign minister, yesterday said that Romanian foreign policy will generally remain unchanged, adding that the integration process must be “accelerated.”