Elections are over and votes are still being counted, however, partial results are starting to turn out. With a turnout of 46,02%, these elections had fewer voters than the 2016 ones, however, considering they were organized under pandemic conditions this is still a significant presence. At a county council level, PSD has retained 20 county presidents, PNL now has 17 and UDMR has 4.

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Marcel Ciolacu gave a statement saying that the era of “strongmen” in PSD is over, and that he is a teamplayer, thus PSD will change its course and will now be led by a team. To this, the leader of PSD Vaslui, Dumitru Buzatu, responded by saying that somehow Ciolacu is not as “tall” as former leaders such as Ion Iliescu or Adrian Năstase.

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On August 14th, 2020, the Government plans to adopt a Resolution to extend the state of alert by another 30 days starting from August 16th, 2020. On August 12th, during a Parliamentary debate with PM Ludovic Orban, PSD interim president Marcel Ciolacu announced that PSD will file the censor motion against the Orban cabinet on Monday, August 17th. Moreover, PSD’s interim Senate president Robert Cazanciuc presented “the black book of the liberal Governing” showing that this document will be the basis for the Censor Motion that will be filed by PSD. While PSD claims that it has the necessary vote to pass the censor motion, Pro-Romania’s Victor Ponta revealed that it will vote the Censor Motion. On the other hand, USR announced that it will not vote it, while UDMR claimed that it will not sign the motion without making any statements regarding its votes. President Klaus Iohannis categorised the motion as populist and claimed that Romania will not have another PSD Government.

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Victor Ponta has clarified Pro Romania’s position, stating that local elections should be postponed. Ludovic Orban, however, stated that there is no reason for them to be postponed, as they can also be organized online, campaign and all.

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PM Ludovic Orban has stated that regarding the mayoral race in Bucharest, PNL would most desire a three-way with both USR-PLUS and PMP, supporting common candidates for all the mayoral seats. He also stated that PSD has no reason to call for a no-confidence vote. Beyond this, he also attacked USR, stating that the latter has ramped up its attacks to the level of PSD. USR has responded to this with an attack of its own, with Dan Barna stating that USR only criticizes PNL out of sincerity, as opposed to the latter.

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