National Executive Committee

The candidacy files will be rejected or approved on Friday during the National Executive Committee (CExN, ed. n.) of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, main at rule, ed. n.) said on Thursday the party's national leader Liviu Dragnea, urging the ones with "the exaggerated rows" to think of the political formation they are part of.

South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has formally asked President Jacob Zuma to resign after he refused to do so earlier, reports say, quoted by BBC.

The reported decision to "recall" him followed marathon talks by senior party officials that continued into the early hours of Tuesday.

Prime Minister Mihai Tudose has announced, on Friday evening, at the end of the meeting of the National Executive Committee (CExN) of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), that he has lost the support of the party and will resign as Prime Minister, Agerpres reported.

"I am leaving with my head held high", Tudose said.

The Deputies' Chamber in a plenary session on Tuesday will debate and vote on the prosecutor general's demand regarding the draw-up of the request for opening a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

Former minister Liviu Dragnea, sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term on Friday, has submitted on Monday his resignation from the executive chairmanship of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD). He had already resigned from the ministry of administration on Friday; a decision on his retirement from the party leadership will be taken by the PSD National Executive Council on Wednesday.

Nigel Farage will stay on at the helm of the UK Independence Party, party chairman Steve Crowther announced on Monday.

Crowther said in a statement the party's National Executive Committee has refused to accept Farage's decision to quit after failing to win a seat in last week's election because it "concluded that UKIP's general election campaign had been a great success."

The national executive committee of Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party, PSD, on Thursday approved a new pact with a junior party in the governing coalition, aimed at shoring up support for the current centre-left government.

PSD [Social Democratic Party] chairman, Victor Ponta, is going to present the main priorities of the government for 2015-2016, on Friday and Saturday [January 30-31], at the convention of the National Executive Committee of the party. The convention will overlap with the gathering of the Social-Democratic parliamentary groups.

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The executive chairman of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), Liviu Dragnea, stated, on Wednesday evening, that the main reason for which Mircea Geoana and Marian Vanghelie were expelled from the party was that they sabotaged the activity ongoing during the presidential election campaign, it being "the straw that broke the camel's back" due to "several reasons" that appeared previously.

Premier Victor Ponta will unveil the lineup of his reshuffled Cabinet at the meeting this Sunday of the National Executive Committee of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD).