The National Political Council of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) voted, on Wednesday, in a sitting, for the nomination of Petre Daea as Minister of Agriculture, political sources specified for AGERPRES.
On June 23, the Prosecutor General sent to the Chamber of Deputies a report by the National Anti-Corruption Authority (DNA) requesting the criminal investigation of Adrian Chesnoiu, then Agriculture Minister. Subsequently, Chesnoiu announced that he was stepping down as the agriculture minister and suspending himself from PSD.