BUCHAREST, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Social Democratic Party (PSD) of Romania decided to propose acting Economy Minister Mihai Tudose to be the party's nominee for the Prime Minister office, announced the party leader Liviu Dragnea on Monday.
Tudose was officially validated as proposal for the Prime Minister office by the National Executive Committee convention of the PSD.
The proposal was also endorsed by the junior ruling Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE).
The proposal of the two-party ruling coalition will submit to President Klaus Iohannis.
Tudose, 50, is the acting Minister of Economy in the government led by Sorin Grindeanu which was dismissed by a motion of censure last week. He had been in the same position from December 2014 to November 2015.
He is a PSD deputy and for 13 years the chairman of the Commission for Economic Policy, Reform and Privatization of the Chamber of Deputies.
The ruling coalition toppled on Wednesday its own cabinet amid a tense relationship between the leadership of major ruling PSD and the prime minister who refused to resign even after his party withdrew political support for him and expelled him from the party.
Grindeanu's cabinet entered into office in January after the Social Democrats won more than 45 percent of the votes in the parliamentary elections in December 2016.
President Iohannis will begin later Monday consultations with parliamentary parties. Under the Constitution, the head of state shall designate a candidate to the office of prime minister after the consultations.
The designated prime minister shall seek the vote of confidence of Parliament upon the program and complete list of the government within 10 days of his designation.
