This week, the Orban government was mainly focused on stocktaking and reorganizing the ministries. Several state secretaries have already quit their jobs, ahead of the announced mass sackings that the PM Ludovic Orban has already announced for some time. It the following week, we will likely see more resignations and probably some sackings as well, and will likely find out the dates of several contests for public positions that are not directly nominated by the Government.  

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This week, the public scene was dominated by the hearings of the designated ministers. On October 29th and October 30th, 2019, the Committee hearings of the designated ministers were held. Floring Cîțu, designated Minister for Public Finance, Violeta Alexandru, designated Minister for Labor and Social Protection and Ion Ștefan, designated Minister for Public Works, Development and Administration did not receive favorable notices.

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Negotiations for support with the opposition parties did not go well enough, with the Orban government managing to get support from UDMR, PMP and USR. ALDE recently became an uneasy ally, as Varujan Vosganian noted on October 24th, 2019 that some things agreed upon during their negotiations, related to transport in Moldova, are missing from the government program . ALDE will decide on Monday, according to Vosganian.

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2019 Presidential Elections On November 24th, Romanians are expected to vote in the second round of the 2019 presidential elections. The two remaining candidates are the incumbent President and PNL candidate, Klaus Iohannis and former Prime-Minister and PSD candidate, Viorica Dăncilă. Despite numerous attempts from Dăncilă to have a debate with her counter-candidate, Iohannis refused to participate. The two candidates had separate meetings with the media and members from the academia.

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Ludovic Orban is a career politician, currently President of the National Liberal Party (PNL). As the Minister of Transport from April 2007 to December 2008, during the Tăriceanu government, he made available 72km of highway and has signed infrastructure programs of more than RON 3,3 billion. He was embroiled in several scandals, on of which was linked to corruption. He was acquited in 2017 by  the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and the DNA plea to restart the trial was rejected by the 5-judge committee in 2018. He is a supporter of several controversial labor reforms, among which reintroducing the income tax for the IT sector.  In the past few weeks Ludovic Orban has tried to gain the support of the other opposition parties to ensure the validation of his cabinet in the Parliament. While he succeeded in gaining the support of USR, ALDE and UDMR by making compromises, Orban did not convince Pro-Romania to vote in its favor. Moreover, PMP remains undecided, with Eugen Tomac stating that a decision will be made within PMP. Orban claimed that he will continue the negotiations with other political parties, including PSD trying to secure a parliamentarian majority, but the situation is not in inclined in his favor. We believe that Ludovic Orban will have a hard time trying to pass the vote of confidence in the Parliament and that President Klaus Iohannis will have to make another proposition. Today, Orban will submit the list of ministers and the Governing Program in the Parliament and the hearing of the ministers will begin next week.

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