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Late on Sunday, current Prime Minister Ludovic Orban declared himself the winner of the parliamentary elections. His conservative liberal PNL party then appeared to be able to rule the country with the support of the center-right USR-Plus party.
But less than a day later, with 95 percent of the votes counted, it is clear that the Social Democratic PSD will be the largest party with around 30 percent of the vote while the NLP gets around 25 percent. Progressive USR-plus gets about 15 percent, AP reports.
Chose to resign
Only two additional parties reached the 5% threshold required to enter parliament.
The far-right AUR party, which has emerged as a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage, received 9 percent of the vote and the UDMR party, which represents the country’s Hungarian minority, received 6 percent. .
After it became clear that Orban would have difficulty forming a new government, he decided to resign. He announced on Monday that he will not negotiate with the Social Democratic PSD.
The president clearly
President Klaus Iohannis is expected to temporarily hand over responsibility to a minister while he investigates who has the best chance of bringing together a majority of MPs and senators.
In his opinion, it is not relevant to deliver the witness to the PSD. The former ruling party’s long tenure was marked by allegations of corruption, protests against controversial legal reforms, and a constant power struggle with Iohannis.
“A center-right coalition that can propose the formation of a government is rapidly crystallizing,” the president said in a statement.
If the NLP is ultimately allowed to form a government, it will likely be on a fragile base, where the growing alliance of USR-Plus parties is expected to demand increasingly tough control over corruption.
