Romania’s new government headed by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu of the leftist Social Democratic Party took the oath on Monday. The new pro-Europe government has been tasked with providing stability and maintaining the country’s pro-European trajectory.
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00:00Romania has a new government,
00:05although the presidential elections
00:07were cancelled early this month.
00:09The pro-European coalition formed by PSD,
00:14PNLU, DMR and minorities
00:17has decided to build a majority and a government.
00:23Already today, in the Parliament,
00:26this majority has been verified
00:30and it is clear.
00:33I hereby appoint as Prime Minister
00:36of the Romanian Government,
00:38Mr. Marcel Ciolacu.
00:40The mandate entrusted to me today
00:42honors and obliges me.
00:44We live in complicated times,
00:47but I think I have learned from all the mistakes of the past.
00:52I am aware that it will not be an easy mandate.
01:00The new government is made of 16 ministries
01:03and has the task to organize the presidential elections.
01:16I swear to give all my power and insight.
01:20The political crisis is over for now in Romania.
01:23The new government has been sworn in
01:25and it is expected to take this year
01:27an ordinance of unpopular sweeping measures
01:31like putting a cap on public sector salaries
01:33or stopping the indexation of pensions.
01:39However, opposition parties challenge
01:41the legitimacy of the president.
01:44We were supposed to send
01:47Klaus Johannis
01:49because his mandate ended yesterday
01:52and he should resign.
01:54We do not recognize the legitimacy
01:56of Klaus Werner Johannis.
01:58Starting today, he is an illegitimate president.
02:03In the meantime, Kalin Georgescu,
02:05the candidate who came first
02:07in the first round of the presidential elections,
02:09is challenging in court their annulment.
02:12The investigations and controversies
02:14about his rise continue,
02:16but the protest vote remains.