Romania’s pro-European parties have initiated efforts to form a unified political strategy amid a tense political landscape following the annulment of the presidential elections by the Constitutional Court. The Social Democrats (PSD), the Liberals (PNL), the Union for the Salvation of Romania (USR), and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) have begun discussions to create a pro-European majority in parliament and establish a joint candidate for the rescheduled presidential elections.

Romania’s pro-European parties agreed Wednesday to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on opposite sides and shutting out far-right nationalists who made significant gains in the election on Dec. 1. Pro-Western parties won the most votes, with the leftist Social Democratic Party, or PSD, topping…

Romania’s pro-European parties agreed to form a majority government made up of groupings that were traditionally on opposite sides and shutting out far-right nationalists who made significant gains in the election on Dec. 1.