Nicuşor Dan is once again summoning the parties for consultations on appointing the prime minister. The president is expected to announce today the fourth name since the political crisis began

President Nicuşor Dan is convening a new round of consultations with the parliamentary parties on Monday, at Cotroceni Palace, to nominate a candidate for the position of prime minister. According to the Presidential Administration, the discussions will begin at 14:00 and end at 19:00.

Schedule of consultations

14:00 - Social Democratic Party (PSD)

14:30 - Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR)

15:00 - National Liberal Party (PNL)

15:30 - Save Romania Union (USR)

16:00 - Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR)

16:30 - Parliamentary Group of National Minorities

17:00 - S.O.S. Romania Party (SOS)

17:30 - Party of Young People (POT)

18:00 - United for Romania parliamentary group

18.30 - PACE – First Romania parliamentary group

19.00 - Unaffiliated MPs

The consultations are taking place after Siegfried Mureșan's government failed last week to secure in Parliament the 233 votes required for investiture. Mureșan was the third prime minister-designate in the past five months. The president announced that, at the end of the new round, he would nominate a new candidate, ruling out the possibility of early elections.

Romania has had an interim government for five months, following the dismissal of the Cabinet led by Ilie Bolojan through a no-confidence motion on May 5. Subsequently, the nominations of Eugen Tomac and Adrian Veştea also failed. Under the Constitution, the designated candidate has ten days to ask Parliament for a vote of confidence on the program and the entire list of the Government.