Ex-PM proposed to lead Romania coalition

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Series Details 11.12.08
Publication Date 11/12/2008
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Traian Basescu, Romania’s president, has proposed Teodor Stolojan, an economist and former prime minister, as his candidate to head a grand coalition, December 2008. It would encompass the centre-right Democrat Liberals (PDL), the centre-left Social Democrats (PSD) and a smaller party that represents Romania’s ethnic Hungarians.

Subsequently, the leader of Romania's centre-right Liberal Democrats, Emil Boc, was asked to form a new government, after Mr Stolojan turned down the job.

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