Boc I

The Boc Cabinet was a coalition cabinet between the largest parliamentary parties, PD-L and the

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. After the breakup of the legislative coalition, it was known as ”the first Boc Cabinet.” Despite the ambitious governing program, numerous conflicts erupted between the PDL and PSD leaders, each party blaming the other. In particular, president Traian Băsescu and Mircea Geoană, the leader of PSD, competed for the presidential elections in 2009. The coalition cabinet lasted less than one year. Following the resignation of

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(

) from the office of Minister of Administration and Interior, on 2 February 2009, the

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voted to unify the post of

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with the post of Minister of Administration and Interior. On 1 October 2009, following the removal from office of the

, Minister of Administration and Interior,

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(

), all the

Ministers resigned from the cabinet. As a result, all their offices were taken, ad interim by the PD-L, for a period no longer than 45 days. The cabinet should have received a new vote from the

, as its political composition was changed. On 13 October 2009, for the first time in the post-communist history, the

adopted a

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(”moțiune de cenzură”), and Cabinet Boc was removed. It worked just an acting cabinet, with diminished power. Its term ended on 23 December 2009, when the new cabinet, headed also by Emil Boc received the vote of confidence from the Parliament and was sworn in at Cotroceni Palace. During the interim period,

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nominated repeatedly friendly candidates, despite the fact that the then opposition parties ( PNL,

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, and the 18 representatives of the national ethnic minorities), having an absolute majority in both Houses of Parliament, expressed their will to nominate the Mayor of

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Proposed Croitoru and Negoiță cabinets

The Croitoru-proposed cabinet was

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's proposal for the cabinet, composed of 14 ministers, listed below. It was proposed on 23 October 2009, and was rejected by the

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on 4 November 2009. On 15 October 2009,

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, citing the need for an individual well-versed in economic policy to steer Romania through the ongoing crisis,"Băsescu spune ca n-are nimic cu Iohannis dar România are nevoie de un premier cu experiență în economie" ("Băsescu Says He Has Nothing against Iohannis but that Romania Needs a Prime Minister with Economic Experience")
''Ziarul Financiar'', 14 October 2009; accessed 16 October 2009 nominated the politically

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as Prime Minister in place of

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, whose cabinet fell after losing a

two days earlier."Băsescu l-a desemnat pe Lucian Croitoru pentru funcția de premier" ("Băsescu Designates Lucian Croitoru Prime Minister")
Mediafax, 15 October 2009; accessed 15 October 2009 The nomination was backed by the Democratic Liberal Party, which is supporting Băsescu in the upcoming presidential election, but drew criticism from the rest of the parties represented in the Romanian Parliament (the

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, the National Liberal Party, the

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and the Parliamentary group of ethnic minorities), which backed

Mayor

for the position, and vowed to challenge Croitoru's nomination at the

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or derail it in Parliament. In a meeting with Croitoru on 20 October, the four Parliamentary groups told Croitoru they would not vote for a cabinet headed by him, and asked him to refuse the nomination as Prime Minister. On 23 October, Croitoru announced his proposed cabinet, which included 14 ministers, down from 18 in Emil Boc cabinet. There were 7 holdovers, and 7 new names (in addition to Croitoru). The Ministry of Youth and Sport would be merged with the Ministry of Education and Research and Innovation, the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Business Environment which will be merged with the

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, the Ministry of Tourism which will be merged with the Ministry of Regional Development. Five current ministerial posts (of Youth and Sport, Small and Medium Enterprise, Tourism,

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, and Relations with Parliament), as well as the post of Deputy Prime Minister would be cancelled. Following the rejection by

of the Croitoru Cabinet, dubbed in the press as the second Boc cabinet without Boc,

Băsescu nominated sector 3 Mayor

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to form a new government. Due to the fact that the Cabinet structure was identical to, and that most of the ministers where the same as the ones of the first Boc cabinet, and the Croitoru (proposed) Cabinet, this new proposal was nicknamed by the media and analysts ''The Boc III Cabinet without Boc''. This cabinet never received a vote from

, and Negoiță renounced to the mandate days after the run-off of the

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, the first Boc cabinet being officially mandated as a caretaker government until a new cabinet would form.

Boc II

On 23 December 2009 the new Boc Cabinet received, by a narrow margin, the vote of confidence of the

, and was sworn in at

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later that day. The

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formed was a coalition government between the Democratic Liberal Party and the

. It also received the (traditional) vote of the national minorities group in the

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and of the two controversial groups of independents in both houses (

and

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) of

. On 3 September 2010,

announced a Cabinet reshuffle, replacing six Ministers. Due to the way the reshuffle was implemented, after two days of meetings and discussions, the media continued, albeit without any legal basis, the numbering of the reshuffled Cabinet as ''Boc V'', the current Boc II Cabinet being dubbed by the press and civil society as Boc IV. On 6 February 2012, he resigned from office, on the background of long ongoing street protests. The members of the cabinet are listed below.

References

Romanian Presidency press release
on 11 December 2009

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