Romania's President refuses to nominate Muslim Prime
Minister
The Romanian economist, Sevil Shhaideh, who had been designated Prime Minister by her PSD Party - AP. |
(Vatican Radio) Romania plunged into
political turmoil Tuesday as the president refused to nominate as prime
minister an economist who could have become the country's first female Muslim
premier.
President Klaus Iohannis made clear that he used the
Christmas holiday to decide whether to nominate the 52-year-old Muslim Sevil
Shhaideh to the post of prime minister.
On Tuesday he urged the Social Democratic Party, the winners
of the December 11 elections, to nominate someone else as government leader.
"I carefully examined the pros and cons and I have decided not to accept
this nomination," he told reporters.
"Consequently I request the PSD-ALDE coalition to put forward another name."
"Consequently I request the PSD-ALDE coalition to put forward another name."
He did not say why he would not name Shhaideh as the
country's first female Muslim prime minister of this mainly Eastern Orthodox
Christian nation of some 22 million people.
UNDER PRESSURE
However she had been criticized for lacking sufficient
political experience. Shhadeih briefly served as regional development minister
last year.
Social Democrat chairman Liviu Dragnea is unable to become
prime minister because he was convicted this year of election fraud.
The opposition had accused him of trying to run the country
from the sidelines by installing Shhaideh as his puppet.
Tuesday's tensions comes amid public pressure on politicians
to end corruption and social difficulties in what is one of the poorest
European Union nations.
Many people still struggle with the daily burden of
transition in Romania, where ousted authoritarian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and
his wife were executed in 1989, on Christmas Day.
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