The Social Democratic Party (PSD) members from Bucharest-Ilfov are meeting on Wednesday for the sixth regional meeting ahead of the internal referendum on 20 April, where they will decide whether to remain in power.
The Bucharest-Ilfov regional meeting is taking place at the Grand Hotel Bucharest, starting at 17:00.
So far, five regional meetings have been held out of a total of eight: South-West Oltenia, South Muntenia, South-East, North-East and Centre.
After each of these meetings, party leaders have delivered the same message: Social Democrats no longer want Ilie Bolojan as prime minister, they seek a reconfiguration of the governing coalition, possibly removing the Save Romania Union (USR) and a rethink of the government programme.
"I presented to colleagues from the Moldavia region the three possible scenarios. The first is to remain as we are now, the second, which includes, let's say, three further sub-scenarios, is to stay in the current coalition but with a reconfiguration (...) and the third is moving into opposition. There are no other options. (...) We are at the fourth regional meeting. No one supports remaining as we are now. I haven't heard anyone say we should continue in the same form, meaning having Ilie Bolojan as prime minister, leaving things as they are in the coalition. Everyone wants, as we voted in June last year, or almost everyone, to continue within a pro-European coalition, but not under the same parameters. And this is not because everything is exceptionally good in Romania. We all see that we are heading in the wrong direction," PSD Chairman Sorin Grindeanu told a press conference on Monday in Bacau.
Regarding political stability, Grindeanu said it "is good as long as it brings prosperity."
"But when you have a government that makes life increasingly difficult for Romanians, you have to change things, you have to try to provide a better government for Romanians," the PSD leader wrote on his Facebook page two days ago.
The PSD will make the final decision on whether to remain in power in an expanded meeting on 20 April, when around 5,000 party members are expected to vote.
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