The president of Romania, Nicusor Dan, has appointed his advisor Eugen Tomac this Thursday as the new prime minister and has entrusted him with the task of forming a new Executive, after a motion of no confidence brought down the government of Ilie Bolojan following the breakup of its pro-European coalition, made up of four political formations.
"Since the parties do not understand each other, an independent prime minister has been chosen who can understand each of them on key points: pro-Western development, salary reform, digitalization, because this is what Romanians want," Dan reported in statements collected by the Romanian media.
The head of state announced the choice of Tomac—a former independent deputy, leader of the extra-parliamentary People's Movement Party (PMP), and currently a Member of the European Parliament—after several weeks of contacts and meetings with the leaders of the different political forces at the Cotroceni Palace.
Tomac announced that, within a maximum of ten days, he will present to Parliament "a team of professionals" and "specialists without political ties." "My vision is clear: Romania is at a moment that demands, above all, responsibility. Only then can we offer Romania the clear direction it needs," he argued.
In the framework of these conversations with the president, the liberals of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the conservatives of the Save Romania Union (USR) have refused to support a cabinet in which ministers from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) participate.
Bolojan's Executive eventually collapsed by becoming a minority at the end of April, after the PSD withdrew from the government alliance. This formation later joined the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) to push for the motion of no confidence that ended up bringing down the cabinet.
The previous government—then made up of the PSD, the PNL, the USR, and representatives of the Hungarian minority from the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR)—swore office in June 2025, after closing a pact focused on tackling the European Union's (EU) largest budget deficit.
Romania, a member of the EU since 2007, accumulated with previous governments a total budget deficit of 9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), well above community limits, which led Brussels to threaten the freezing of European aid.
The formation of that Executive came after a serious political crisis, precipitated by the victory, against all odds, of Calin Georgescu, a far-right candidate close to Moscow, in the first round of the presidential elections, an election that was ultimately annulled due to the irregular financing of his campaign.
The elections were repeated in May 2025, when Dan, then mayor of Bucharest, defeated the far-right candidate George Simion, from AUR, after the aforementioned decision to invalidate the results of the first call.