Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said today that his Social Democratic Party (SDP) has withdrawn from talks on a government coalition but will support a center-right minority government in parliament, Reuters reported, BTA reported.
"You can't establish anything concrete with people who say one thing in private and another to the media. You can't do anything with so-called partners who are "disgusted" to sit at the table with you and who think that this is how they "dirty" themselves, Çolaku wrote in a Facebook post, quoted by Agerpres.
In the words of the Prime Minister, the SDP "has tolerated such treatment for long enough", but such a way of working is completely counterproductive.
"This is why the SDP is withdrawing with dignity from the discussion table, but we are not running away from responsibility. We will vote in parliament for a right-wing government. We are doing this because this country urgently needs a government that will address the current problems until the upcoming presidential elections," Ciolacu also wrote.
Ciolacu's Social Democratic Party (SDP), which received the most votes in the parliamentary elections on December 1, was negotiating to form a parliamentary majority with the other three pro-European parties - the National Liberal Party (NLP), the Union for the Salvation of Romania (USR) and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (DUSUR), as well as with representatives of national minorities.
In recent days, Romanian media have reported tensions in the negotiations between the four parties. Earlier this week, the SSR accused the other parties of a lack of transparency in their budget plans, and on Tuesday, the party's leader, Elena Lasconi, said she had not been invited to another meeting in the negotiations.
After the presidential election on November 24, in which as a presidential candidate, Çolacu failed to reach the second round, he announced his resignation as leader of the SDP.