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Negotiations for the formation of the future center-right government have already begun, after President Klaus Iohannis contacted the leaders of the parties with which the PNL will form a government by telephone. Kelemen Hunor, Dacian Cioloș and Dan Barna were summoned by the president, who agreed with them to have a first applied discussion at the end of this week.
Negotiations for the formation of a new majority are led, at the declarative level, by the president of the PNL, Ludovic Orban, but it is President Klaus Iohannis who assumed this role. On Monday, Iohannis called Kelemen Hunor, Dan Barna and Dacian Cioloș to make sure that the future government will consist of PNL, USR PLUS and UDMR.
Now follows the period of negotiations, in which the most important leadership positions are challenged. The prime minister will be from the PNL, but the government structure, the ministries and the leadership of the two houses of Parliament will be negotiated between the three political parties.
For now, the favorite for the post of prime minister is Nicolae Ciucă, the current interim prime minister.
Hitting the head of the Chamber of Deputies and the head of the Senate
However, the negotiations between USR-PLUS and PNL do not start well. The fact that Ludovic Orban has already marked his seat as president of the Chamber of Deputies, before sitting at the table to dialogue with future government partners, made them jump.
Even if Klaus Iohannis offered them the second position in the State, the head of the Senate, they refuse, saying that if the NLP had already taken out of the envelope the position of prime minister, the second position in the elections should have belonged to USR-PLUS . .
“The problem is that Orban’s move is practically a first one that forces negotiation, because the position of the presidency of the House had to be discussed before Ludovic can be thrown into the chair,” say USR-PLUS .
“Among the top positions of Prime Minister, Speaker of the House, Speaker of the Senate and Deputy Prime Minister, we did not enter into negotiations just to get the post of Deputy Prime Minister. If NLP takes the prime minister, the next shot should be with us. So if they were the first to shoot the camera, that’s not right “, explained USR-PLUS administration sources for Digi24.ro.
In the inner game of PLUS users and colleagues, the situation would be complicated by the fact that Dan Barna could become deputy prime minister, which would not be good for the people of Cioloș, who could get rid of him if they “parked him “. as president of the Chamber of Deputies.
USR PLUS wants justice for Stelian Ion and finances for Năsui
The first discussion will be about the structure of the government. Currently, the Executive has 16 ministries and a post of Deputy Prime Minister without portfolio. President Klaus Iohannis would prefer the government structure to remain small, but a tripartite coalition could lead to the breakdown of ministries to meet all demands.
Within USR-PLUS there is a particular situation, those of USR and those of PLUS have different views on how the Executive structure should be and who should occupy the portfolios.
For example, PLUS talks about reorganizing the government by dividing the ministries that would need more participation, including Tourism, Energy and Communications, which should be independent ministries.
However, those in RSU are willing to follow the current governance structure, provided they get the desired ministries to negotiate.
In addition, USR believes that it should receive more positions than PLUS, while those of PLUS want the division within the alliance to be equal: half of them, half of those of USR.
According to party leadership sources, USR PLUS wants at least two main ministries and three smaller ministries.
Among the important ministries they want is the Ministry of Justice – for Stelian Ion, Finance – for Claudiu Năsui, Development or European Funds – a ministry in which former minister Cristian Ghinea is most interested.
In the future government, if the current structure is maintained, PNL could have 8 ministries, USR PLUS – 5 and UDMR could receive 3 ministries.
It is interesting that those of USR-PLUS, who until now have distinguished themselves by their declarative intransigence and the conditions set to sit at the same table with other parties, have abandoned this philosophy.
When asked if they will have conditions related to certain people proposed by PNL or UDMR, which they could reject for various reasons, they now say no. “Orban was a problem,” they say.
NLP is not going to give up
However, PNL has no intention of handing over key ministries, handing over Justice or Finance and in no case European Funds.
PNL also calls for Development, Economy and Transport and will not resign from the Ministry of the Interior whose leadership in the technocratic government held the current number 2 of PLUS, Dragos Tudorache and who remained interested in the reform of the ministry and the abolition of some structures. internal.
Those of the UDMR are interested, as usual, in the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of the Environment, and could also receive Health, which is a “hot potato” anyway, and the liberals would not necessarily want to be in charge of the related reproaches Covid Crisis Management.
One option would be for the UDMR to receive the post of deputy prime minister, if it does not go to USR-PLUS.
