Vestea after Cabinet rejection in Parliament: Not the vote I had hoped for Romania
Prime-minister-designate Adrian Vestea said on Monday, after his proposed Cabinet was rejected in Parliament, that the vote was not the outcome he had hoped for, but he respects it.
'Today's vote was not the one I had hoped for Romania. But the vote is sovereign and I respect it. I did not seek this position for the sake of office; I accepted it because the country needs stability, not a deadlock. That remains true regardless of today's result. Forty-seven days without a government are already costing us too much: European funds, trust, and time we will not recover. I remain convinced that responsibility must outweigh any political calculation,' Vestea wrote on Facebook.
Parliament rejected on Monday evening the Vestea Government by a vote of 189 to 23 against, out of 212 votes cast. AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - writing by: Simona Klodnischi)
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