Alliance of Liberals and Democrats

Social Democratic Party (PSD) chairman Liviu Dragnea and Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) chairman Calin Popescu Tariceanu will meet on Monday, political sources inform.

According to the sources, among the topics to be approached at the meeting by the ruling coalition leaders there is also the budget draft for the current year.

Considering the electoral pool of the Social Democrat Party (PSD, major at rule, ed. n.) a social-democratic candidate in the presidential election will have all the chances not only to get to the second round, but even win, on Wednesday night told the private TV broadcaster Antena3 the Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu.

Social Democratic Party (PSD) chairman Liviu Dragnea on Thursday said he didn't rule out the alternative of a candidacy of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu in the presidential elections, mentioning that it is important to have a common candidate of the two parties making up the ruling coalition.

The joint plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate rejected on Thursday the censure motion called "Enough! The Dragnea - Dancila Government, Romania's shame!," initiated by the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union (USR) and the People's Movement Party (PMP).

Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu's interview with French newspaper Le Figaro has sparked controversy in Bucharest, after he criticized the ruling party, which he once led, and then tried to retract the statements - prompting the newspaper to release the recording to the media.

The censure motion titled "Enough! Dragnea - Dancila Government, shame of Romania!," initiated by the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union (USR) and the People's Movement Party (PMP), was filed with Parliament on Friday.

The document is signed by 163 MPs.

The joint standing bureaus are going to set the debate procedure.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Tuesday that Romania should follow the example of the other EU member states and seek consensus for the time it holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2019, stressing that political disputes should be secondary to that.

The Offshore Law is paramount for everybody and especially for Romania's citizens, on Monday said Energy Minister Anton Anton, at the Chamber of Deputies, after the "Gov't Hour" adding that in his opinion "it will clear Parliament."

The candidate for the presidential elections in 2019 will be designated after an analysis to be concluded this autumn, and a possibility has opened for a joint candidate of the ruling Social Democratic Party - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (PSD-ALDE), PSD national leader Liviu Dragnea said on Sunday.

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Monday stated that he did not discuss with the partners in the ruling coalition at their meeting earlier in the day about the modification of the Criminal Codes through a Government Emergency Ordinance (GEO), as they will use exclusively the parliamentary debate path for the job.