BUCHAREST: Months of political infighting in Romania seemingly ended with the recent, not-so-unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Ciorbea. Little more than a year after he led the country’s "democratic forces" to stunning parliamentary and presidential victories, the ruling coalition of Christian-Democrats, liberals, social-democrats, and ethnic Hungarians now seems on the brink of disintegration. Although the ex-Prime minister had been held personally responsible for his government's failure to follow through on its ambitious economic reforms, that failure goes far deeper than one man.
BUCHAREST: Months of political infighting in Romania seemingly ended with the recent, not-so-unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Ciorbea. Little more than a year after he led the country’s "democratic forces" to stunning parliamentary and presidential victories, the ruling coalition of Christian-Democrats, liberals, social-democrats, and ethnic Hungarians now seems on the brink of disintegration. Although the ex-Prime minister had been held personally responsible for his government's failure to follow through on its ambitious economic reforms, that failure goes far deeper than one man.