ludovic orban has been appointed as the new prime minister of romania.
ludovic orban has been appointed as the new prime minister of romania.
who has been appointed as the new prime minister of romania?
ludovic orban
a few protesters have been present in victory square, bucharest almost every day since february 2017. after only six months in power, sorin grindeanu was removed from the office of prime minister by his own party (psd), after an internal power struggle. afterwards, mihai tudose, a vice-president of psd, became on 26 june 2017 the new prime minister of romania. protests continued in bucharest during the tudose cabinet, which continued to try to implement in various ways many of the controversial measures that started the protests in january 2017. mihai tudose later, after an internal power struggle, resigned on 15 january 2018 from his office. on 20 january 2018, somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people joined an anti-corruption march in bucharest. after tudose, viorica dăncilă, a psd member of the european parliament, was nominated to be the new prime minister of romania. viorica dăncilă took office on 29 january 2018. during her time as prime minister, the protests against the government and parliament have continued, and since february 2018 have gradually grown in size and intensity.
2017–2019 romanian protests
the swedish constitution of 1974 allows the prime minister of sweden to appoint one of the ministers in the cabinet as deputy prime minister ("biträdande statsminister", also unofficially known as "vice statsminister", "vice prime minister"), in case the prime minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties. however, if a deputy prime minister has not been appointed, the minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time (and if there are several with equal experience the one who is oldest) takes over as head of government. note that the person acting as prime minister does not do so on a permanent basis: if a prime minister dies, resigns or loses a vote of confidence in the riksdag, the speaker of the riksdag will then confer with the parties of the riksdag and propose a new prime minister, who must be tolerated by a majority of the riksdag. if the prime minister has resigned or lost a vote of confidence, he or she will remain the head of a government "ad interim" until the new prime minister assumes his or her office. the only case where the governmental line of succession becomes relevant is when the prime minister dies (upon which the person next in the line of succession serves as the head of a government "ad interim") or when the prime minister is on leave or for any other reason incapable of serving, but still remains in office. this might be compared to the presidential line of succession in the united states, where the person next in line assumes the presidency throughout the remainder of the term if the president dies, resigns or is impeached.
swedish governmental line of succession