Romania’s Ruling Party Elects Interim as PM Ponta Investigated

 
Reuters, 22/07 18:56 CET

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling party elected an interim leader on Wednesday to replace Prime Minister Victor Ponta who quit the post last month pending a criminal investigation.

The person elected to lead the leftist Social Democrats (PSD), Liviu Dragnea, has himself been convicted of electoral fraud and was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence earlier this year, with an appeal to be 

held in late September.

Dragnea, 52, a former regional development minister and one of Ponta’s closest allies, won 65 votes to 18 in a ballot of senior party members.

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Source: Euronews