Titus Corlățean

Acting national leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Tuesday after a convention of the party's National Executive Committee (CEx) that Titus Corlatean was picked for deputy prime minister; Ana Birchall for justice minister; Roxana Manzatu for European funds minister, and Natalia Intotero for minister for Romanians abroad.

Romania's Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean resigned on Monday amid protests against the government which protestors say had prevented expats from voting for president.

First Vice Chairman of the Liberal Christian Alliance (ACL) Catalin Predoiu considers that Titus Corlatean's stepping down as Foreign Affairs Minister is just a "smoke screen", and urges Prime Minister Victor Ponta to take over this portfolio as interim and sort out the issue of the diaspora ballot casting.

Resigning Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean on Monday said the Foreign Ministry (MAE) is still fully sticking to its position that there is no legal basis for opening additional polling stations for Romanians abroad.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday announced he asked the Foreign Affairs Minister, Titus Corlatean, to summon to Bucharest the ambassadors, consuls and presidents of the polling stations from France, Germany, Great Britain, Austria and the Republic of Moldova to be instructed so that situations similar to those happened on Sunday when Romanian nationals couldn't cast their vot