(Adnkronos) – The pro-European parties in Romania have committed to quickly forming a coalition government to isolate the far right, with the possibility of even going so far as to nominate a single candidate for the presidential elections, the date of which has yet to be set, after the cancellation last Friday, due to Russian interference, of the vote that had led the far-right candidate Calin Georgescu to win the most votes in the first round. It will be the outgoing president Klaus Ioannis who will have to give the mandate to the new Premier by the end of the legislature on the 21st of this month, following the parliamentary elections on the first of December. The Social Democrats, the Liberals (in government with the Social Democrats in the outgoing executive), the Save Romania Union of Elena Lasconi, the candidate in the second round of the cancelled presidential elections, and the ethnic Hungarian party have reached an agreement to form a majority.
“In the coming days, the four parties and the representatives of the minorities will work on a common government program based on development and reforms based on the priorities of Romanian citizens,” the joint statement read.
