Liviu Dragnea

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.

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.

Social Democratic Party (PSD, major at rule, ed.n.) leader Liviu Dragnea stated on Monday that the decision of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) is fundamental with regard to the referral lodged by the Government in relation to the appointment of the new ministers of Regional Development and Public Administration and Transport.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Wednesday night asserted that the Gov't has "no problem whatsoever" as concerns its parliamentary majority, maintaining that the Opposition should show "much more responsibility".

Bucharest, Dec 1 /Agerpres/ - Approximately 4,000 Romanian and foreign servicemen from all categories of forces marched, on Saturday, December 1, in the National Day Military Parade taking place at the Arch of Triumph in Bucharest.

Bucharest, Dec 1 /Agerpres/ - The Military Parade on the National Day of Romania has begun on Saturday in Bucharest, with 4,000 Romanian and foreign servicemen to march under the Arch of Triumph.

The start of manifestations was done by the review of the Honor Guard by President Klaus Iohannis, after which the National Anthem was sung.

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea said on Wednesday that the recommendations of the Venice Commission, except one, are comprised in the Romanian legislation, referring in this sense to the emergency ordinance adopted by the Dancila Government, but whose text reached the plenum of the Venice Commission too late.

President Iohannis talks about the people with criminal files who have climbed to the top of the state, but, in fact, he is the one who "has climbed" while being prosecuted in several cases, but has not resigned, PSD president Liviu Dragnea said on Monday.

The Romanian investigative publication Rise Project says the ruling Social Democratic Party is trying to pressure it to disclose the source of a recently leaked document that includes financial as well as personal information about party leader Liviu Dragnea.