PNL lawmaker Alexandru Muraru publicly rejected China's embassy protest over his recent visit to Taiwan, asserting the full independence of his parliamentary mandate.
Muraru visited Taiwan; China's Bucharest embassy formally protested the trip.
The PNL deputy rejected the criticism, asserting parliament needs no foreign approval.
Beijing invokes its "One China" principle against any official contact with Taipei.
After a month of caretaker government, Romania's president has picked a fellow honorary adviser and MEP to lead what Tomac promises will be a technocratic cabinet.
President Dan nominated Eugen Tomac as prime minister on Thursday.
Tomac pledged a technocratic cabinet and has ten days to present his team.
Securing the required 233 parliamentary votes remains an unresolved obstacle.
The outgoing caretaker premier issues a sharp critique of Romania's political culture of impossible promises, as the country enters its second month without a fully empowered government.
Bolojan warns that unrealistic political promises are the primary danger parties pose to Romania.
His cabinet has been in caretaker status since May 5, after a 281-vote no-confidence motion.
Designated PM Tomac has yet to secure a clear parliamentary majority for investiture.
Trainee magistrates at Romania's National Institute of Magistracy say the proposed salary levels make a career as judge or prosecutor financially unattractive compared to private legal practice.
INM trainees are weighing a move to the bar, unhappy with proposed magistrate pay.
Recruitment into the judiciary was already fragile at smaller courts.
The Ministry of Justice has not responded publicly to the trainees' concerns.
MP Bogdan Rodeanu warns that a cabinet without its own parliamentary base will end up depending on the very parties that toppled the Bolojan government.
Rodeanu (USR): a Tomac technocrat cabinet benefits PSD and AUR in Parliament.
Without its own MPs, the cabinet will rely on major parties for every vote.
Tomac has ten days to present his list; he needs 233 votes for investiture.
President Nicușor Dan taps his honorary adviser Eugen Tomac to form a government, transferring the burden of building a parliamentary majority to the nominee.
Eugen Tomac, MEP and presidential adviser, nominated as PM on June 4, 2026.
He has ten days to build a majority; the constitutional deadline falls on June 19.
A fractured parliament and conflicting party demands make a successful investiture vote uncertain.
President Nicușor Dan tapped MEP Eugen Tomac to form the new government. The proposed cabinet is composed entirely of non-partisan specialists, including at the Agriculture portfolio.
Nicușor Dan designated Eugen Tomac as prime minister on 4 June 2026.
The proposed cabinet includes only non-partisan technocrats, including at Agriculture.
Tomac has ten days to secure parliamentary backing; the constitutional deadline is 19 June.