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Romanian PM Emil Boc announces resignation

Mon, Feb 06 2012 11:22 CET

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Romanian PM Emil Boc announces resignation

Romania's prime minister Emil Boc addresses a news conference in Bucharest, in this file picture taken on January 16 2012. Boc resigned on February 6 after weeks of nationwide protests against his tough austerity measures and before a parliamentary election due late in 2012.

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Romanian prime minister Emil Boc announced on February 6 2012 that his government was resigning following weeks of protests in Romania against austerity measures.
 
Boc, addressing a cabinet meeting that was broadcast live on television, said that he wanted to "defuse political and social tension".
 
Boc, leader of the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and prime minister since December 2008, said that he was renouncing the mandate to govern because "it was the moment for important political decisions".
 
The harsh austerity measures in Romania include a 25 per cent in public sector pay and a freeze on pension increases.
 
The protests against austerity measures started on January 12 and have seen violent clashes between police and protesters.
 
Romania has been forced to embark on an austerity programme in 2009 after signing a 20 billion euro bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission.
 
Under the terms of the bailout, Romania had to curtail its public finances deficit by cutting spending in the state administration (which it has done through a law that cut civil servants' salaries in 2010) and push through reforms in several sectors, health care among them.
 
Before Boc’s resignation announcement on February 6, Romania was due to hold parliamentary elections in late 2012.
 
 

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