Romanian media reported today about new tension in the negotiations between the four pro-European parties that are trying to form a majority to form a government after the parliamentary elections on December 1.
The leader of the Union for the Salvation of Romania (USSR) Elena Lasconi claims that she went to the Victoria Government Palace today to participate in talks with representatives of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the National Liberal Party (NLP) and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (DUH) on forming a new government, without being invited to the meeting, Agerpres reported.
Lasconi told the media that she did not receive an invitation to participate in this meeting, which she described as "lack of respect". "I saw on TV that there was a meeting and that the USR did not want to participate. "I want to say that the SSR wants to participate in governance for the good of Romanians," Lasconi said, adding that those present at the meeting were "shocked" by her appearance.
For their part, the representatives of the SDP and the NLP said that everyone knew about today's meeting and there was no need for a special invitation, Digi 24 television reported.
Yesterday, the SSR accused the other parties of a lack of transparency regarding the budget and financial policy.
Last night, the country's media wrote that the future coalition could be left without the SSR, after Lasconi said that he currently does not want to negotiate with the other parties on the "distribution of posts in the new government, without having an agreed plan to get Romania out of the deep state budget crisis."
"It is absurd to discuss names for ministers before we have a serious governance program. "Let's not put the cart before the horse," the SSR leader said at the time, quoted by the Ziare website.
At the same time, representatives of the SDP and the NLP calculated that they would be able to form a majority in the future parliament together with the DSUD and the group of national minorities, even if the SSR no longer wishes to participate in this political union, the publication notes.
The four parties - the SDP, which ranked first in the elections, the NLP and the SSR, which took third and fourth place respectively, and the small party of ethnic Hungarians, the DSUD - signed an agreement after the parliamentary elections on December 1 to create a pro-European coalition, after three far-right and nationalist parties, including the second-place Alliance for the Unification of Romanians (AUR), won over 30 percent of the seats in parliament.