BUCHAREST, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Friday that the ruling party decided to plan early elections to change the current parliamentary political distribution.
According to him, President Klaus Iohannis and he believed that "it is best for Romania to hold early elections."
"The Parliament is currently being dominated by the Social Democrats acting as a brake on the president's and the government's efforts to put the will of the people into practice," said the prime minister after meeting the head of state at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace earlier on the day.
"It is absolutely necessary for... the citizens to elect their representatives so that there is a faithful mirror in the parliament of the current options of Romanian citizens," said Orban.
Orban said that it would be good for an early general election to be organised simultaneously with the local elections in June. Yet, he did not want to elaborate on the strategy for triggering the early elections.
The prime minister, also the leader of the ruling National Liberal Party (PNL), mentioned that his party had appointed a working team for discussions on the matter with other political parties in the parliament.
The current Romanian parliament was formed after the elections in Dec. 2016. The Social Democratic Party (PSD), which came to power after the elections, stepped down in a vote of no confidence in the parliament last October, and the PNL subsequently formed a minority government to take power.
At present, the PSD still controls 42 percent of the seats in the bicameral parliament, while the PNL has only 21 percent of seats. Some small parties support the ruling party in parliament but do not participate in the ruling.
