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National leader of the Save Romania Union (USR) Dacian Ciolos said on Tuesday that over the past hours the intention of some National Liberal Party (PNL) leaders to form a coalition with the Social Democratic Party (PSD) has become "increasingly visible."
At a news briefing at the Parliament House, Ciolos voiced hope that moving forward there will be a "clarification discussion" between PNL and USR leaders in order to establish if it is possible to rebuild their former coalition.
According to the USR leader, decisions should be taken "urgently" in the healthcare and energy areas, and rebuilding the coalition would be "the best solution," because the governing agenda has already been negotiated and a cabinet composition has been agreed upon.
"I thought yesterday, when PNL announced that the prime minister-designate is resigning, that there is a chance for the restoration of Romania's modernisation coalition. Unfortunately, over the past hours, we have seen increasingly more clearly that the intention of some PNL leaders - I understand that it is not yet a decision taken in PNL - but it is becoming more and more obvious that the intention of some PNL leaders is to throw themselves into the arms of PSD and recreate a brotherhood of the old parties," said Ciolos.
He added that PNL's decision to abstain from voting led to PSD gaining on Tuesday the position of acting speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. In his view, that is "a signal, a symbol of what is likely to follow."
In a PNL - PSD coalition version, the Save Romania Union "will remain the only pro-European, truly liberal and modernising political force," that wants an independent judiciary, according to Ciolos.
"We cannot see how the reforms that USR and PNL have agreed and that people were waiting for can be implemented with PSD at rule," he explained, Agerpres informs.
