The coalition means that the four parties, and the ethnic minority representatives, will together hold a majority in parliament and will be able to push for a prime minister from among their ranks.
There will still be further talks about what the parliamentary coalition’s governance aims will be, and who will be prime minister, though current PM Marcel Ciolacu, of the Social Democrats, could stay on.
The parties managed to fend off an outright victory of far-right parties in a parliamentary election this past Sunday. But the strength of the radical vote, which brought together three far-right parties in the parliament, suggests that ultranationalist Georgescu could still win this Sunday.
The Romanian polling agency CURS predicted he would win 57.8 percent of the vote against reformist candidate Elena Lasconi, of USR.
Lasconi, who would be Romania’s first woman president if she wins, has vowed to keep the country aligned with the EU and NATO and warned that a Georgescu victory could push the country back toward Russia and the dark days of dictatorship.
The pro-EU parliamentary parties’ coalition called on Romanians to vote for a European path on Sunday.
