The Romanian Prime Minister, Emil Boc, resigned yesterday. As reported in a previous post, the government had been facing ongoing protests about both particular issues as well as the general economic situation. There is a nice overview at SETimes here.

President Băsescu has nominated Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu as the new PM. He is a former Foreign Minister and prior to being nominated he was the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

PM-designate Ungureanu now has 10 days to win the confidence of parliament. Art. 103 (3) states: “Parliament shall grant confidence to the Government by a majority vote of Deputies and Senators.”

Having sensed that the Boc government might be about to fall, I have another sense that the confirmation of PM-designate Ungureanu may not go wholly smoothly.