Women are hard to find in the new Romanian government: just one of the 21 cabinet ministers in Florin Cîțu’s executive is female.
Erstwhile finance chief Florin Cîțu has been sworn in as Romania’s new prime minister. Cîțu, pictured above, will lead a three-party coalition including his own Liberal party (PNL), USR-Plus, and the Hungarian Democratic Union (UDMR).
Cîțu’s confirmation follows two weeks of negotiations that came after a parliamentary election on December 6. While the Social-Democrats (PSD) emerged as the largest party, it won just 30 per cent of the vote, leaving it well short of a majority. Together, the three, broadly centre-right parties that will make up the new coalition have around 55 per cent of the seats in Romania’s parliament. The 17 MPs who represent Romania’s ethnic minorities have also pledged support.