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Romanian social democrats withdraw from talks on unity government
A man waves the Romanian flag outside the closed voting station where Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate for president who won the first round of presidential elections, was supposed to vote, after Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first
ROMANIA’S Social Democratic Party (PSD) has withdrawn from negotiations on forming a pro-EU coalition government.
The PSD won the most votes in December 1’s parliamentary elections and provides the current Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. Its decision throws the formation of a pro-status quo unity government into jeopardy.
“You cannot build anything lasting with partners who are incapable of overcoming their own egos and ideological cliches,” Mr Ciolacu said of talks with three other parties aimed at shutting out the far right.
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