Romania's President Dan nominates MEP Eugen Tomac, 44, as technocratic PM a month after Bolojan's no-confidence ouster

Romanian President Nicusor Dan on June 4, 2026, nominated his own adviser, 44-year-old European Parliament member Eugen Tomac, as prime minister in a bid to end a month-long political crisis. Tomac — president of the small People's Movement Party (PMP), a center-right Christian-democratic group with no seats in Romania's parliament, who sits with Renew Europe in Strasbourg and served in the Romanian parliament from 2012-2019 — pledged 'a team of specialists, a technical government, not a political one.' Dan said he chose 'a person independent of the parties in Parliament,' citing Tomac's 'independence, experience and values.' Tomac has 10 days to assemble a cabinet and win a confidence vote in parliament.

The nomination follows the May 5 collapse of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan's pro-EU coalition, toppled in a no-confidence vote of 281 in favor to 4 against. That motion was jointly submitted by the leftist Social Democratic Party (PSD), which had quit the four-party coalition (PNL, USR, UDMR) in late April, and the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR).

Bolojan's austerity drive to cut one of the EU's largest budget deficits — targeting 6.2% of GDP in 2026, down from over 9% in 2024 — fractured the alliance. Bucharest must show progress by an August deadline to unlock roughly 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) in suspended EU recovery funds; the leu had hit a record low against the euro around the no-confidence vote.