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Luciana Antoci and Cristina Pocora, state advisers, resign from the Prime Minister’s Chancellery following the PNL’s decision to move into opposition

Medeea Stănescu

19 October 2026, 13:40

Politics

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Luciana Antoci and Cristina Pocora announced their resignations from their positions as state advisers in Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s Chancellery, after the PNL leadership decided that all dignitaries supported by the party should give up their posts. The resignations were announced at the beginning of this week, amid the liberals’ move into opposition.

Luciana Antoci, responsible for education, said that she had held the position since September 2025 and was leaving the Government with a “sense of duty fulfilled.” She specified that she would continue her work in the field of education. Before her appointment to Victoria Palace, Antoci was the general school inspector of Iași County, a position in which she was supported by the PNL.

Cristina Pocora, who coordinated social policy issues, also submitted her resignation. She was appointed in March and said that, by leaving office, she was taking responsibility for the decision of the party to which she belongs.

“I thank Ilie Bolojan for his trust and for the honor of being part of his team. I am confident that we will succeed in restoring people’s trust that there are serious, patriotic, and responsible people in politics who keep their word and put the country before their own calculations,” Cristina Pocora announced, according to News.ro.

PNL leader Ilie Bolojan had announced that the liberal dignitaries would submit their resignations after the party decided to vote for the Luca Niculescu Government and enter opposition.

Context: before the resignations from the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, the PNL announced its opposition strategy following negotiations with Luca Niculescu

Before the resignations were announced, Ilie Bolojan presented the PNL’s direction: the liberals discussed a bilateral political agreement with Prime Minister-designate Luca Niculescu for a period of six months, without the party taking over government, and said that during the first six months it would neither initiate nor vote for motions of no confidence against the Executive, provided that the conditions of the agreement were respected.

At the same time, Bolojan insisted that parliamentary support for the investiture of the Niculescu Government depended on ending the caretaker period, arguing that the Executive was facing budgetary problems and that some institutions might not have sufficient funds until the end of the year; Interim Deputy Prime Minister Oana Gheorghiu added that the PNL would decide its position after analyzing the program and the government team, while also pointing out that the vote would not be “a blank check.”