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Rival Romanian parties form coalition government to shut out the far right
People wave Romanian and European Union flags during a pro-European rally ahead of the country's December runoff presidential elections in Bucharest, Romania, December 5, 2024
RIVAL political parties in Romania agreed today to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on opposite sides.
The move shuts out far-right nationalists who made significant gains in the election on December 1.
The Social Democratic Party (PSD), which topped the poll, reached agreement late on Tuesday to form a grand coalition with the right-wing National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union party (USR) and the small Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) party.
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