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Romania's government falls, far-right firewall crumbles

dw.com·Keno Verseck·26 days ago
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Romanian governments rarely stay in power for long. The last time a Romanian prime minister completed a full term was between 2004 and 2008. Since the constitutional crisis of 2012, the country has had no less than 11 elected prime ministers, seven interim leaders and 19 different cabinets. In short, Romania has been chronically unstable for years. Now, another government has fallen . Government loses no-confidence vote On Tuesday, the cabinet led by Ilie Bolojan of the National Liberal Party (PNL) was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote. Bolojan had been in office for just 10 months. But this is not just another Romanian government crisis. For the first time in Romania's post-communist history, a party from the democratic, pro-European camp — the Social Democratic Party (PSD) — joined forces with a far-right, pro-Russian party, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), to file a no-confidence motion in parliament and then vote together to bring down a government.…

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