The coalition means that the four parties, along with 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.
More talks are to come on the governance aims of the parliamentary coalition, and on 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 by 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 the presidency this Sunday.
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 coalition of pro-EU parties called on Romanians to vote for a European path on Sunday.
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