Romanian President Calls Parties For Talks On New Government

Basescu sent a letter to the Parliament parties telling them to come to the presidential palace for consultations, in accordance with the Constitution, on Thursday, November 05, at 05.00 p.m., with delegations of no more than 12 people.

The consultations will begin with the minorities' Parliament group and will continue with the representatives of the independents' group in Parliament, Hungarian minority party UDMR, the liberals, the social democrats and conservatives, and the democrat liberals.

Basescu recently told a central radio station that he would choose a right wing government, formed by his backers, democart liberals, and the liberals at PNL, with a democrat liberal prime minister. In reply, PNL's presidential candidate Crin Antonescu told MEDIAFAX that Basescu is simply trying to rake in some PNL voters. "But an alliance between Crin Antonescu the politician and Traian Basescu the politician is out of the question," Antonescu added.

Romania's Prime Minister-designate Lucian Croitoru lost a confidence vote in Parliament Wednesday as 250 lawmakers voted against his proposed government, leaving the country stuck in a political deadlock.

Basescu will have to designate a new prime minister, who will then have ten days to propose a new Cabinet. The country's self-proclaimed parliamentary majority of social democrats, liberals, the Hungarian minority party and other national minorities has said it continues to back Sibiu mayor Klaus Johannis for prime minister, but Basescu is reluctant to designate him.

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