Varujan Vosganian

Actor Ion Caramitru was buried on Friday, with military honours, on the Actors' Alley of the Bellu Cemetery in the Capital City, in the presence of dozens of people who applauded for a long time.

At the end of consultations at the Government House on Tuesday with interim Prime Minister Ludovic Orban and Prime Minister-designate Florin Citu, June 28 was established as a date for the local elections agreed upon by the majority of the participants in the consultations.

Parliament has convened on Monday in a joint session for the debate and voting on the investiture of the Orban Cabinet.

Spokesman for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) MP Varujan Vosganian believes that Pro Romania, by refusing to support the Orban government being voted into office, no longer has the same political adversaries as ALDE, which provides "cover" to dismissed Prime Minister Viorica Dancila.

Vice Chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), deputy Varujan Vosganian, told a press conference in Iasi on Friday that the idea of holding early elections is a "bogy", and that no political party really wants the replacement of the current government. "I listened to yesterday (Thursday, ed. n.)'s statement by Mr Iohannis, which revealed what I was already suspecting.

Spokesman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) Varujan Vosganian said on Tuesday that the Alliance will "almost certainly" nominate its leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu as presidential candidate.

A new meeting of the ruling coalition on the 2019 state budget topic takes place on Wednesday at the Palace of Parliament.

President of the Senate Calin Popescu-Tariceanu came to Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Liviu Dragnea's office, where discussions on the 2019 budget draft are to be continued.

Writer Varujan Vosganian said on Sunday at Bookfest that he remains convinced that politics will recover only through culture, although he thinks that believing that one can do politics through culture is a big mistake.

The Prime minister's Control Body will notify the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) for the violation of some legal provisions in connection with the modernisation of the Transalpina national road during the tenures of former liberal ministers Ludovic Orban and Varujan Vosganian.

Photo credit: (c) Simion MECHNO / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Senator Varujan Vosganian on Friday announced his resignation from the National Liberal Party (PNL).

Photo credit: (c) Radu TUTA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

''As an comradely response to your requests, please hereby receive my resignation from the new PNL," Vosganian wrote on his blog, addressing the PNL leadership.