Romania Coalition Nears Collapse as Top Party Spurns Premier
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Ilie BolojanRomania’s government has been thrown into turmoil after the top ruling party withdrew its support for Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, whose own bloc is now rallying to salvage his control of the four-way coalition.The clash raises the prospect of the collapse of the pro-European alliance that took office last year in a bid to keep the far-right out of power after the country’s worst political crisis in more than three decades.
The Social Democrats’ move was the culmination of months of bickering over austerity drive, which they say has inflamed social tensions.