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		</div><p>Romania’s pro-European parties have agreed to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on opposite sides and shutting out far-right nationalists who made significant gains in the election on December 1.</p>
<p>Pro-Western parties won the most votes, with the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD) topping the polls.</p>
<p>The PSD reached an agreement late on Tuesday to form a grand coalition with the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the reformist Save Romania Union party (USR), and the small ethnic Hungarian UDMR party.</p>
<p>The parliamentary election came hard on the heels of a presidential vote in which the far-right outsider Calin Georgescu won the first round.</p>
<figure id="attachment_185079" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-185079" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_7190.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-185079" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-185079" class="wp-caption-text">Elena Lasconi had been due to face Mr Georgescu in a run-off vote</figcaption></figure>
<p>His surprise success plunged the European Union and Nato member country into turmoil as allegations of electoral violations and Russian interference emerged.</p>
<p>Days before the December 8 presidential run-off, the Constitutional Court made the unprecedented move to annul the presidential race.</p>
<p>A statement from the new coalition said the parties would potentially support a “common pro-European candidate” in the new presidential elections. It is not yet clear whether Mr Georgescu will be allowed to run in the new vote.</p>
<p>President Klaus Iohannis, whose second term is set to expire later this month, said a new date for the re-run presidential election would be set once the new government has taken office.</p>
<p>“In the coming days, the four parties and the representatives of the national minorities will work on a joint governing programme, focusing on development and reforms, while addressing the priorities of Romanian citizens,” the coalition statement said.</p>
<p>Elena Lasconi, the leader of USR who was set to face Mr Georgescu in the annulled presidential run-off, said after the agreement was reached that “Romania is going through a very difficult” period, and that cutting state spending and reducing bureaucracy would be part of the governing programme.</p>
<p>In 2021, despite historically being Romania’s two main opposition parties that have dominated post-communist politics, the PSD and the PNL formed an unlikely but increasingly strained coalition together with UDMR, which exited the Cabinet last year after a power-sharing dispute.</p>
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