Romanian Social Democrat leader backs government rotation agreement if his party takes first turn

Sorin Grindeanu, the president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), said on Wednesday, July 1, that he agrees to a government rotation agreement as long as PSD is the party taking over governing first, Hotnews.ro reported.

PSD was part of a governing coalition alongside the National Liberal Party (PNL), the Save Romania Union (USR), and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) until early May, when it sided with the hard-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) and toppled the government led by PNL leader Ilie Bolojan in a no-confidence vote. The agreement between the coalition parties stipulated that PNL would hold the PM position for the first part of the governing cycle, after which PSD would follow.