Romania PM-Designate To Propose Rebuffed Ministers In New Cabinet

Negoita said he has the support of democrat liberals and independent lawmakers, but not that of the group of minorities.

He also said he will meet Sunday evening with Marko Bela, leader of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, which represents the interest of the country's about 1.4 million ethnic Hungarians.

Negoita, designated prime minister on Friday, said he wants to have a list of proposed ministers in Parliament Monday and invited all parliamentary parties to discuss and negotiate the making of a national coalition government.

Social democrats and liberals refused to attend any such talks and said they would reject Negoita's proposed Cabinet.

Romania is run by a caretaker government, with limited powers, that lost a confidence vote mid-October and the Parliament rejected the government proposed by economist Lucian Croitoru earlier this week.

The International Monetary Fund and the European Commission put off loan disbursements to Romania because of the country's political uncertainty.

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