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Romania's interior minister named as interim PM

Xinhua | Updated: 2025-05-06 20:43
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Romanian Interior Minister Catalin Predoiu looks on during a press statement following a working meeting with the Austrian Interior Minister at the Interior Ministry in Vienna on August 23, 2023. Romania's liberal interior minister Catalin Predoiu has been named interim premier, the presidency announced on May 6, 2025, a day after the prime minister's resignation deepened political turmoil in the EU member. Romania's pro-EU Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu stepped down on May 5, 2025 after a far-right candidate topped the first round of a tense presidential vote rerun. Predoiu is a former justice minister who already served as interim premier in 2012. [Photo/Agencies]

BUCHAREST -- Romania's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Catalin Predoiu was named interim prime minister on Tuesday, following the resignation of Marcel Ciolacu.

Interim President Ilie Bolojan signed the decree under constitutional provisions that acknowledge Ciolacu's resignation and install Predoiu to serve until a new government is formed, the Presidential Administration said in a statement.

Ciolacu stepped down on Monday after the ruling Social Democratic Party withdrew from the governing coalition. Under Romania's Constitution, an acting prime minister may remain in office for up to 45 days.

Predoiu, 56, is a veteran politician who has served multiple terms as justice minister and briefly acted as caretaker prime minister in 2012 and 2023. He has served as interior minister since June 2023 and was reappointed in December 2024.

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