Overview
- The Social Democratic Party and the hard-right AUR party submitted a no-confidence motion to oust Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, with AUR claiming 251 signatures and saying a vote will likely happen next week.
- The two parties control about 220 of parliament’s 464 seats and need 233 votes to pass the motion, and PSD says smaller nationalist groups such as S.O.S. Romania have added support.
- Prime Minister Bolojan refused to resign and says his cabinet must keep reforms on track to unlock more than €10 billion in EU recovery money before an August deadline.
- Leaders from Bolojan’s National Liberal Party called the PSD move irresponsible and ruled out forming another coalition with the Social Democrats.
- The partnership has drawn warnings in Brussels about normalizing far-right alliances, pressuring Europe’s Socialist family to defend its vow to work only with pro‑EU partners.