According to G4Media, the negotiations for the formation of the new PSD-PNL-UDMR government focused on the division of the ministerial portfolios, PNL insisting that Nicolae Ciucă be the first prime minister in the governmental rotating. In such a case, the Social Democrats told the Liberals that if they were the first to take over as prime minister, PSD would take over the Ministry of Finance.
The argument launched by PSD immediately displeased the first vice-president of PNL, the MEP Rareș Bogdan. “Marcele, you can’t do this to us!”, Rareș Bogdan replied to the PSD president, Marcel Ciolacu.
According to G4Media sources, the Liberals would like to remain in office as Prime Minister, as indicated by President Klaus Iohannis, which would lead to the loss of the Ministry of Finance in favor of the Social Democrats. Also, according to the negotiations, the Ministry of Development would return to the UDMR. The loss of the two ministries that provide revenues in the territory, representing a channel of influence among local government leaders, is a disadvantage for the PNL, but the Social Democrats have clearly stressed, through Ciolacu’s voice, that they are not willing to give up their argument.
During the negotiations, the PNL leader Florin Cîțu was informed that neither he nor Dan Vîlceanu can have the Ministry of Finance, in the event that Nicolae Ciucă remains to take over as prime minister. According to G4Media, Cîțu got up from the table and left the meeting, without returning until the end.
Cîțu returned at the end of the meeting, emphasizing that he does not agree with what was discussed from the moment Nicolae Ciucă was elected for the position of prime minister.
The 4 first vice-presidents of PNL, Rareș Bogdan, Lucian Bode, Gheorghe Flutur and Iulian Dumitrescu continued to express their dissatisfaction with the fact that PNL would lose both Transport, and Finance, and Development, when it was proposed to interrupt the talks, on the grounds that “one cannot communicate in the party”.
above photo: I say Photos/ Virgil Simonescu
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