Ponta said the proposals have been accepted by acting president Crin Antonescu and the new ministers might be sworn in Monday evening.

PSD senator Dan Sova will replace Mircea Dusa as minister for liaison with Parliament. Titus Corlatean will move from Justice to Foreign Affairs.

The vacant Justice portfolio will be taken over by judge Mona Pivniceru, former president of the Romanian Association of Magistrates and currently a member of the High Council of Magistrates (CSM).

People close to the matter told MEDIAFAX earlier that Andrei Marga might be replaced as foreign minister and appointed ambassador to Germany.