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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis warned about the country’s deepening political crisis and vulnerability, citing internal and external factors.
“Romania is in a very complicated situation,” he said, according to a report by the Romania Journal website.
“We have a war on the border. We have hybrid attacks against Romania that led to the cancellation of the presidential elections—an unprecedented situation.”
Iohannis, who represents the centre-right National Liberal Party, also referred to the “very complicated situation” with the “internal problems” of key EU member states.
On Monday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of no-confidence, following the collapse of his government’s coalition, while on Friday last week, France’s president named his third prime minister of 2024 in the hope of leading his country out of political chaos.
“The last thing Romania needs is an extended governmental and parliamentary crisis. Something like this must be avoided at all costs,” Iohannis said.
The political situation in Bucharest is in uncharted territory following recent elections.
Votes to elect Romania's president and parliament descended into chaos when a little-known far-right NATO critic won the first presidential round on November 24, prompting Romania's top court to annul it on suspicion of Russian meddling.
Although the PSD won the most seats in the December 1 parliamentary election, three ultranationalist and hard-right groupings, some with overt pro-Russian sympathies, won more than a third of the seats to become a hard-to-ignore political force.
The PSD was in talks over forming a wide coalition with three other pro-European Union parties in an attempt to cordon off the far right, but the four clashed over reform plans and measures needed to lower the EU's largest budget deficit.
"Unfortunately you cannot build something durable with partners who are incapable of overcoming their own egos and ideological clichés," PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu said on his Facebook account.
"We are willing to vote for a minority government so that Romania has political stability," he said later.
President Iohannis, whose term expires on December 21 and who will nominate a new prime minister and stay on until his replacement is elected, said that a minority government was not a good idea at times of crisis.
The Liberals, the centrist Save Romania Union (USR), the ethnic Hungarian party UDMR and representatives of ethnic minorities have around a third of the seats in the new parliament, which will be sworn in on Saturday.
It was also unclear whether the three other parties were willing to continue coalition talks following the PSD move.
Credit agency Fitch cut Romania's credit rating outlook to negative on Wednesday, warning the frailty of the pending coalition could further postpone deficit reduction measures urgently needed.
