Victor Ponta

Consultations over a new Romanian prime minister are to be concluded this week, as analysts and officials predicted that a technocratic cabinet could be put in place until the next elections are held in December 2016.

Protesters booed Romanian President Klaus Iohannis as he visited the participants in the demonstrations in Bucharest on Sunday.

Iohannis went to University Square on the sixth day of protests to talk to participants in the demonstrations.

The death toll from last week's nightclub fire in Bucharest has increased to 44 after three more people died from injuries on Sunday, the Romanian authorities said.

Doctors say some 100 wounded remain hospitalised, among them 44 in critical condition, AFP reported.

Two more people succumbed Nov. 7 to their wounds from a horrific nightclub fire in Bucharest that brought down the Romanian government, bringing the death toll up to 43, a hospital official said.

Romania's president on Nov. 5 appointed Education Minister Sorin Campeanu as interim prime minister to replace Victor Ponta, who quit following mass anti-government protests sparked by a deadly nightclub fire.

At least five people were injured in an explosion followed by a fire occurring at a bread factory in the Romanian city of Brasov on Thursday evening.

Prefect Mihai Mohaci said that the five injured, who had not lost consciousness were transported to the County Emergency Hospital, AGERPRES news agency quotes him as saying.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta's resignation on Nov. 4, after a deadly nightclub blaze, has failed to stop tens of thousands from taking to the streets for a second night.

Sorin Cîmpeanu will be Romania's new interim PM after Victor Ponta stepped down on Wednesday, state-run Agerpres agency has said.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday appointed Cîmpeanu, who until now was Ministry of Education.

Ponta stepped down on Wednesday morning after a deadly incident at a Bucharest nightclub triggered mass street protests against his government.

At least 30 000 people took to the streets of Romanian cities again on Wednesday, hours after the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta's government.

Demonstrators blamed the incident at the Collectiv club in Bucharest which killed 32 people and injured hundreds last week.

President Iohannis has to nominate a new PM | Photo: Pro TV. 

Leaders of Romania's main parties are to be invited to the presidential residence to start talks on the appointment of a new prime minister, after Victor Ponta resigned on Wednesday.

Ponta quit following mass protests over the nightclub fire that killed 32 young people.