Ilan Laufer

Social Democrats Daniel Suciu and Razvan Cuc on Friday were sworn in office as deputy prime minister and minister of regional development and public administration, and minister of transport, respectively, at a ceremony at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace. Attending on behalf of the Government were several ministers. Prime Minister Viorica Dancila did not attend, as she was in Madrid.

Premier Viorica Dancila on Thursday sent President Klaus Iohannis a letter reiterating the request for the head of the state to sign the decrees appointing Lia Olguta Vasilescu to Deputy PM and Minister for Regional Development and Public Administration, and Mircea Draghici to Minister of Transport.

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) condemns "the repeated" actions of President Klaus Iohannis through which "he is trying to block the activity of the Government, with the sole purpose of hindering the PSD to complete the electoral commitments which it took on in the governing programme," a PSD release sent to AGERPRES on Friday informs.

President Klaus Iohannis signed on Thursday the decree finding the vacancy of the Development and Transport Ministries portfolios.

Bucharest, Dec 31 /Agerpres/ - Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated, on Sunday, that she had a discussion with President Klaus Iohannis in which she told him that it is important to have the government at full capacity on January 1, when Romania takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Prime minister Viorica Dancila on Thursday said at an informal meeting with the media that she intends to talk to president Klaus Iohannis about the replacement of the transport and regional development ministers, even on Friday, on the sidelines of the CSAT (Superior Council for Country's Defence, ed. n.) meeting.

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) decided to issue on 13 December its opinion regarding the Government 's notification regarding the existence of a constitutional conflict after President Klaus Iohannis deferred the appointment of the new ministers of Transport and Regional Development, official sources told AGERPRES on Friday.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said Wednesday, at the end of a convention of the National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), main at rule, that Lia Olguta Vasilescu is the party's pick for minister of regional development and public administration, and Mircea Draghici for minister of transport.

The new ministers of Education, Defence, Labor and Social Justice, Economy, Culture and National Identity, Communications and Information Society, as well as that of Youth and Sports have been sworn in, on Tuesday, at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in front of President Klaus Iohannis.

President Klaus Iohannis announced on Tuesday that he has issued the gov't reshuffle decree, taking into account the nominations made by the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD).