Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has announced since last week that he will consult with the parliamentary parties to establish the calendar of the presidential elections. The leader of the PNL, Nicolae Ciucă, will be absent from the negotiations, but from the side of the liberals, the Minister of the Interior, Cătălin Predoiu, will be present at the debate.
“Given the Government’s intention to finalize the electoral calendar for the presidential and parliamentary elections -2024, on Monday, July 1, consultations will take place with the political parties, at the Victoria Palace, according to the following schedule”:
10.00 – USR
11.00 – AUR
14.00 – UDMR
15.00 – SOS
16.00 – Group of National Minorities
17.00 – PUSL
Negotiations with other political formations will continue on Tuesday, July 2.
On behalf of the Government, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Social Democratic Deputy Prime Minister Marian Neacșu and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, the liberal Cătălin Predoiu, will be present.
The consultations at the Victoria Palace come in the context in which PSD and PNL have not been able to agree on the calendar of the presidential elections. Although they initially agreed that the date for the first round of the presidential elections would be on September 15, the liberals now want the elections to be held at the end of the year, in November.
At 1:00 p.m., the PNL leadership will reopen discussions about the election calendar in a meeting of the National Political Bureau. Until now, the other parliamentary parties have confirmed their presence at the consultations with the Government team.
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