Candidate Ponta: I might offer Tariceanu PM position

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democrat Party (PSD) - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party, now in the runoff of the presidential race, says he might propose on Tuesday to Calin Popescu-Tariceanu to be the next PM and invite his Reforming Liberal Party to join the governmental coalition.

'We will send an official invitation from the ruling coalition to the party led by Mr. Tariceanu, which also includes all the founding members of USL [the former Social Liberal Union alliance of PSD and National Liberal Party — PNL] — obviously with some notable exceptions — to join again the new government, the Parliament majority, and to carry on USL's programme until December 2016. (...) In the future government, I propose the Reforming Liberal Party to contribute ministers and a state secretary,' Ponta said on Monday at the Romania TV stations.

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