Prime Minister-designate Dacian Ciolos said on Tuesday that it was normal for the other political parties, in re-establishing the ruling coalition with a head of government from USR (Save Romania Union), to have certain claims to reconsider the redistribution of portfolios.
Ciolos mentioned that, if the governing coalition is not rebuilt, there will only be two options left for him: to form a minority government or to submit its mandate as prime minister.
"This option is not excluded [minority government - editor's note]. We have not made a decision in the party related to this yet, because our priority is to seek to rebuild this political majority. But after we have these discussions with PNL (National Liberal Party) and UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania), depending on the outcome of these discussions, we will decide how to proceed with the mandate we received from the President. Because we have also received a mandate from the President. And we know that the President is close to PNL, in many ways, so I assume that, if the President has made this proposal in his constitutional capacity to appoint the PM, there is probably a message to PNL in it as well. Now we will see to what extent this message is received and taken seriously by the PNL," pointed out the Prime Minister-designate.