Romania: Vestea likely unable to get enough votes today

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Romania: Vestea likely unable to get enough votes today

J P M O R G A N Europe Economic Research

22 June 2026

Romania: Vestea likely unable to

get enough votes today

The nominated PM (Vestea) submitted the list of ministers and the economic EM, Economic and Policy Research

program to the parliament late yesterday. The hearings of the proposed Nicolaie Alexandru-Chidesciuc

ministers are underway, followed by a vote in parliament starting at 9.30pm local (44 20) 7742-2466

time. Full list of ministers and proposed measures here. nicolaie.alexandru@jpmorgan.com

J.P. Morgan Securities plc

Yesterday the congress of PNL also took place in which Bolojan was re-elected

as party president. Out of more than 1,840 participants from across Romania at

the congress, 1,769 voted for Bolojan. The resolution which again confirmed that

PNL will not make an alliance with PSD was approved nearly unanimously (only

one abstained). This implies that Romania may only have minority governments,

either PSD or around PNL-USR-UDMR.

There is a de facto PNL split in parliament. Based on our counting, about 25 MPs

from PNL have either issued a protest letter or signed as claimants in the lawsuit

against PNL to block some party decisions. It is unclear if all of them will vote in

favor of Vestea, but there is a good chance that they will. For now, the PNL congress

unanimously decided to ask five PNL members (including Vestea) to resign by

12pm today (which they have not) or face exclusion. Party leadership has not taken

any measures against the others in the group of 25 MPs; measures are possible,

however, if they vote for Vestea.

We remain of the view that Vestea will fail to obtain approval today. The Vestea

proposal can rely on votes from PSD (128), PACE (11), minorities (17) and UR