The PSD demands an urgent convening of a meeting of the coalition, and then of the party’s national political council, in order to appoint Vasyl Dinka’s successor in the Ministry of Defense in the next period, PSD spokesman Štefan Radu Oprya said. after the meeting of the National Political Bureau. When asked if the Social Democrats could cede the defense portfolio to the NLP, he said that there was no such discussion: “We are not interested in these topics of exchange, barter, but we are interested in the stability of the government.”

• “The decision taken by the BPN PSD is to urgently demand the convening of a coalition meeting to discuss within the coalition and then immediately appoint a national political council in the next period. This means that soon, maybe tomorrow will be a good time.
• We know that Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke will go to Brussels, and we believe that this should happen. Probably extremely quickly, after tomorrow’s coalition meeting, let’s convene the PSD National Council, maybe in about two days,” the PSD spokesman said.

When asked if the Social Democrats could cede the defense portfolio to the NLP, he said that there was no such discussion: “We are not interested in these topics of exchange, barter, but we are interested in the stability of the government.”

He also said in response to a question that no names had been discussed.

Defense Minister Vasile Dinku announced his resignation on Monday, citing his inability to cooperate with President Klaus Iohannis. Nicolae Chuke was temporarily acting as Prime Minister.

The resignation came more than two weeks after he said that “the war in Ukraine will continue” and that “the only chance for peace may be negotiations with Russia”, statements accused by Klaus Iohannis, among others. “(…) apparently, some of our high-ranking persons need to read the press magazine more often to learn about these positions,” the president reacted at the time.