IN ORDINARY politics, it is opposition parties who attempt to bring governments down. But politics in Romania is rarely ordinary. For the past week the country’s governing Social Democratic Party (PSD) has been trying to unseat its own prime minister and his cabinet. The prime minister, Sorin Grindeanu, refused to go. On June 21st the PSD succeeded at last, winning a no-confidence vote and kicking Mr Grindeanu out of power, less than six months after it had installed him. One of Mr Grindeanu’s few allies, Victor Ponta, a former prime minister, called the vote an “atomic war between the Social Democrats and the Social Democrats”.
The PSD claimed it was removing Mr Grindeanu over his failure to pass most of the party’s legislative programme, which includes crowd-pleasing measures like tax cuts, salary increases for public servants and a €10bn ($11.2bn) sovereign-wealth fund to promote infrastructure investment. In fact it...Continue reading
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