USR to Vet Niculescu PM Bid, Rules Out PSD-Led Government

Romania's USR party, led by Dominic Fritz, will analyze the program, ministerial team, and parliamentary majority behind Luca Niculescu's prime ministerial candidacy, but has preemptively ruled out supporting any government with PSD ministers or one controlled by PSD. This signals a potential political realignment in Romania's coalition talks, with USR positioning itself as a reformist alternative to the established PSD-PNL alliance.