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The crisis in Romania is not the government’s fall – but the creation of a dangerous governance vacuum that no mainstream parties seem willing to fill.
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More than a week after Romania’s government collapsed, the country still has no replacement. President Nicușor Dan has told reporters that “relatively few viable options” exist to form a governing majority. He is being diplomatic. The honest version is that every party that was supposed to keep Romania governable has found a reason not to.
That is the real story of this crisis. Not the fall of Ilie Bolojan’s government, which was almost predictable by the time it happened, but the speed and completeness with which Romania’s pro-European mainstream has disassembled itself, leaving a vacuum for the far right.
The no-confidence motion passed by parliament with 281 votes on May 5 was filed by the centre-left Social Democratic Party, PSD, and by the right-wing populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians, AUR. It is an alliance that should not exist on paper but worked perfectly in practice.
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