Vlad Voiculescu

Prime Minister designate Florin Citu and Chamber of Deputies Speaker Ludovic Orban arrived to Parliament on Wednesday. According to the announced program, the prime minister designate submits the list of the Cabinet and the governing program to Parliament on Wednesday morning.

The Save Romania Union (USR) and Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity (PLUS) leaders validated, on Tuesday evening, the list of members of the parties that will hold the positions of ministers in the future government, led by Florin Citu.

Save Romania Union (USR) - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity (PLUS) Alliance Co-Chairman Dacian Ciolos told Digi 24 private television broadcaster that Vlad Voiculescu would be proposed for the Health Minister office and Anca Dragu for the Senate President office. "Our proposal will be Vlad Voiculescu for Health, he has experience in the area, he was in charge of this portfolio before.

The co-chair of the Save Romania Union - Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity Alliance (USR-PLUS Alliance) Vlad Voiculescu said on Monday that the alliance would not be part of a government "in which a few faces will be swapped", but would be part of "a real change". "At the governmental level, things cannot continue as they have until now.

The Bucharest Constituency Electoral Bureau unanimously approved the protocol for the creation of the USR PLUS Alliance in the Capital City and its sectors, USR PLUS said in a release. The Save Romania Union (USR) and the Liberty, Unity, Solidarity Party (PLUS) will run on joint lists for the Bucharest local sector councils and the city's General Council.

Florin Citu has resigned as PM-designate, the Presidential Administration announced on Thursday. National Liberal Party (PNL) MPs leader Florin Roman said on Thursday that the gesture of the PM-designate, Florin Citu, of filing his resignation is one "of great responsibility," pointing out that the latter had consulted the colleagues in the party before taking this step.

A Romanian court has placed one of the country's best-known transplant surgeons under supervision, after he was accused of embezzling public funds for 17 years.

Prosecutors detained Mihai Lucan and his son, Ciprian Lucan, last Wednesday. The court rejected their request to investigate them in detention.

A Romanian Ministry of Health investigation that revealed that four transplant clinics did not have adequate equipment for such surgery - and that the country's only lung transplant centre got its license based on disputable documentation - has raised questions about transplants and triggered accusations about organ harvesting.

European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Cretu on Friday called on Romania's Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu to speed up the completion of documents for the construction of three regional hospitals in Romania.