Romanian socialists and far right topple government – POLITICO

The Romanian parliament ousted center-right Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan by passing a vote of no confidence in his government on Tuesday.

“This censure motion is false, cynical and artificial,” Bolojan lamented during the tense debate held prior to the vote. “Any country, in a multitude of crises, would try to consolidate governments, not change them.”

The center-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) played a decisive role in the successful no-confidence vote. Fed up with Bucharest’s severe austerity policies, last month the group pulled out of the government led by Bolojan’s National Liberal Party and announced they would work with the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians to oust the prime minister.