Bucharest, May 5 (IANS). Romania’s bicameral parliament on Tuesday passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. In this, 281 votes were cast in favor and only four votes were cast in opposition, due to which the government fell. This information came out according to the live broadcast of Parliament.
According to the Constitution, as soon as this resolution is passed, a caretaker government will now be formed in Bologna. This means that now this government will be able to do only day-to-day administrative work. This government will neither be able to make any new law nor issue emergency orders. The tenure of this interim government can be up to a maximum of 45 days.
Ili of the National Liberal Party took over as Prime Minister in June 2025. But his strict economic policies and proposal to sell some strategic government assets were strongly opposed by the Social Democratic Party (PSD). The PSD is the country’s largest party and was earlier part of the ruling coalition.
In April the PSD withdrew its political support from the government and also removed all its ministers from the government. The party demanded Ili to resign, but he refused to agree.
According to local media outlet Digi24, on April 28, Romania’s two largest parliamentary parties, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), presented a motion of no confidence in the parliament against Prime Minister Ilie’s government.
In Romania’s 464-seat parliament, a minimum of 233 votes are required to pass a no-confidence motion. The PSD and Auer together have about 220 seats, but the proposal received the signatures of 251 MPs, which also included support from smaller opposition parties and some independent MPs.
Both the big parties came together on this issue, but the ideology of PSD and Auer is completely different. The PSD is a centre-left party, while the AU is a far-right party. These two had never worked together before.
Both of them had a common goal to remove Ili from power. But the rest of their political goals are different. Auer wants early elections, while the PSD wants a new ‘pro-European coalition government’ to be formed.
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