The union, made up of former social democrats and independent lawmakers, has committed to endorse the Ponta Cabinet in Parliament and collaborate with the social democrat lawmakers.
The protocol signed by the two parties targets to levy solidarity tax on large wealth, in the current legislative session, adopt the election law to include pure uninominal voting and ensure majority in Parliament to uphold the new Cabinet’s measures meant to increase public wages and pensions and boost the living standard.
The new Cabinet, which is to seek lawmakers’ confidence vote on May 7, includes members of the Social Liberal Union made up of the Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
On April 27, Romania’s central-right Government led by former prime minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu was overthrown in a no-confidence vote in Parliament. Ponta was designated prime minister on the same day by President Traian Basescu.