Victor Ponta

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has handed out, on Thursday, the mandates proving their election as MEPs following the vote on May 25.

The candidate of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC) electoral alliance will be established following a congress to take place, most likely, in September, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Thursday.

The National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), major at rule, will convene today to analyse the results of the May 25 European elections.

PSD's Ioan Chelaru, deputy chairman of the Senate, said earlier this week that the convention of the PSD National Executive Committee will be held on May 29, starting at 13:00hrs, EEST.

A virtual electoral tandem Victor Ponta president, Mugur Isarescu prime minister has won the most positive appreciations in a recent INSCOP poll, with 28.4 per cent of the respondents having opted for it. Second came in the tandem Victor Ponta president George Maior - prime minister (23.5 per cent).

Romania's main option concerning the composition of the future European Commission is keeping the Agriculture portfolio, but the Justice portfolio option 'would not be bad,' Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Monday, following the discussions on this topic carried out within the ruling coalition, with the participation of Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday sent President Traian Basescu a letter asking him to participate in the European Council meeting to take place in Brussels, political sources told Agerpres.

Ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, believes the result the PSD-UNPR-PC (Social Democratic Party-Conservative Party-National Union for Romania's Progress) Electoral Alliance registered in these elections is a higher one compared with the results obtained in other years, but recommends that this score be treated 'with modesty.'

For the People's Movement Party (PMP), the result garnered in the European Parliament elections on Sunday is a victory, said deputy Elena Udrea at the headquarters of the formation after the first exit-polls.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta in Timisoara (western Romania) on Thursday said that the Government wanted to expand the agri-food product range for which to reduce the value-added tax (VAT), the decision going to be made after the assessment in autumn on the effect of the VAT reduction for bread.

The opposition Liberal Party, PNL, on Tuesday filed a no-confidence motion against the center-left government of Victor Ponta, which the government is likely to survive.

The PNL says the Prime Minister and ruling coalition should step down as they had failed to manifest "a clear foreign policy” in the context of the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine.