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October 20, 2019
October 20, 2019

, 20.10.2019, 13:48

TALKS Romania’s designated Prime Minister Ludovic Orban will be
holding talks with representatives of civil society and state institutions on
Monday and Tuesday. Orban is expected to have a second round of talks with political
parties in the next two days to get support for the new cabinet to be sworn in.
The Prime Minister has already held a round of political talks. In order to be
sworn in the new cabinet needs 233 votes out of a total 465. On Saturday Orban
said the National Liberal Party’s objective is to quickly forge a new
legitimate government, which has serious issues to address. We recall that the
PSD minority government led by Viorica Dancila was sacked through a
no-confidence vote.










BREXIT EU ambassadors have convened on Sunday for talks over the
UK’s request to delay Brexit after October 31. According to DPA, Brussels’
answer is not clear yet. The meeting focused
chiefly on the EU procedures of ratifying the UK’s withdrawal under the
agreement reached with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. British Parliament
on Saturday postponed debates over the Brexit agreement. The MPs wanted to
block their country’s withdrawal from the union on October 31 without
stipulations regarding the transition because they believed the legislation needed
could not be ratified in time. The chamber’s decision was received with
ovations by the thousands pro-Europeans gathered in front of Parliament to ask
for a new Brexit referendum. The country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson opposes
a new delay but was forced by the Parliament vote to call on the European Union
for a new extension of the procedure.












ELECTION The neighboring Republic of Moldova, an ex-soviet
Romanian-speaking country will today be seeing a round of local election in
several constituencies, where officials have stepped down. According to Radio
Chisinau, the most important seems to be the race for the capital’s city hall.
The main contenders are the pro-European Andrei Nastase and Socialist Ion Ceban
who have recently become coalition partners. Andrei Nastase, currently the
country’s Defence Minister, claimed the mayor seat last year but the election
outcome had been invalidated through a court ruling.












HANDBALL Romania’s champions Dinamo Bucharest will today take on
Orel Wisla Plock of Poland in an away match counting towards the Champions
League. Dinamo tops the table in group D but in the women’s competition, SCM
Ramnicu Valcea of Romania lost their away match 23-19 to Buducnost Podgorica of
Montenegro and is currently ranking third in group C. Vice-champions CSM
Bucharest secured a 35-19 home win against Polish side Perla Lublin and is
currntly topping the Champions League group B. The first three sides of each
group will qualify for the competition’s next stage.






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