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The Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) will put together a joint governing programme and a sole Prime Minister candidate, according to the protocol between the two parties, signed on Monday, at the Parliament Palace. The document has three main objectives: ensuring sustainable economic growth and new jobs, increasing material wealth and the quality of life and respecting citizens' rights and liberties. "PSD and ALDE will put together a joint governing programme by harmonizing the stipulations in their electoral programmes," the document specifies.
Furthermore, given that the parliamentary groups of PSD and ALDE hold together 250 mandates, out of the overall 465 mandates, the Governing Coalition for Development and Democracy PSD-ALDE will propose a sole candidate for the position of Prime Minister, jointly designated and will back up, through voting in the Parliament of Romania, a coalition government led by the respective candidate, whose governmental team will be made up of ministers designated proportionately by PSD and ALDE.
The parliamentary groups of PSD and ALDE in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies will constitute a parliamentary majority with a view to support the election of their own representatives in the Standing Bureaus of the two Chambers, within the leadership of the standing commissions, as well as to promote the legislative initiatives and the drafts for laws that the two parties decide upon, by mutual consultations, to initiate at parliamentary and governmental level.
In the protocol, the two parties commit themselves to proportionately carry out the political nominations in ministers, in governmental agencies, in the Government's structure, in the institutions representing the Government in the country, based on criteria of competence, integrity and determination to achieve the objectives of defending the citizens' rights and liberties from the joint governing programme. "The present protocol is signed for the entire period of the parliamentary mandate from December 2016 to December 2020," reads the mentioned document.
