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\npresident Klaus Iohannis is today having talks with Parliament parties summoned
\nafter the sacking of the Liberal cabinet led by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban.
\nThe Legislature on Wednesday endorsed a censure motion tabled by the opposition
\nSocial Democrats backed by the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania
\nafter the cabinet had assumed responsibility for returning to the two-round
\nvoting system in the upcoming local election. PSD and Pro Romania, a group
\ncreated by Social-Democratic dissidents, have announced their endorsement for
\nthe same candidate, Remus Pricopie, a former minister in the Ponta cabinet. The
\nLiberals who want snap election have announced their support for their leader
\nLudovic Orban, while the USR has announced it will nominate the former technocratic Prime
\nMinister Dacian Ciolos. UDMR will not have their own candidate. President
\nIohannis who is also in favour of early election, says that he wants a
\ngovernment with a reforming agenda formed around the National Liberal Party. According
\nto the president the PSD does not want reforms and recommended them to stay in
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WEATHER
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\nRomania’s south-east and snowfalls are still expected tonight in the country’s northern
\nand eastern regions. The highs of the day range between -3 and 7 degrees
\nCelsius with a noon reading in Bucharest of 2 degrees. The snowfalls and
\nblizzard last night caused disruptions in road, rail and air traffic. Some regions have been left without
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VIRUS A ship with 17 Romanians on board has been quarantined in the Japanese
\nport of Yokohama, after several cases of cornoavirus infections were reported,
\nthe Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has today announced. According to the same
\nsources, the Romanian embassy in Tokyo has been notified by the Foreign Ministry
\nin Japan. Out of the Romanians on board, two are tourists and 15 crew. Romania’s
\nconsulate in Hong Kong has asked for information from the local authorities on
\nthe situation of the Romanians on board of a ship moored in that port. No case
\nof coronoavirus infection has been reported in Romania so far. <\/p>\n
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TENNIS The timetable of the games part of the FedCup contest
\npitting the teams of Romania against Russia is to be set today. This coming
\nFriday and Saturday, the northwestern Romanian town of Cluj-Napoca will play
\nhost to the matches counting towards the qualification for a final tournament,
\nto be held in Budapest over April 14 and 19. The worlds’ number 2 tennis player,
\nSimona Halep, said that this year she won’t play for Romania in the FedCup
\nsince she will focus on participating in the Tokyo Olympics, where she keeps
\nher hopes high for winning a medal, so Romania’s team for the match against
\nRussia includes only two top 100 tennis players, WTA 98th-placed Ana
\nBogdan and Raluca Olaru, who is 48th placed according to the same
\nrankings. Save for one player, the Russian team is made up only of top 100
\ntennis players. It is the first time Romania faces Russia in the FedCUp. We
\nrecall that in the past, Romania lost both World Group matches against the
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ACQUITTAL
\nThe White House has hailed the acquittal of president Donald Trump at the end
\nof his impeachment trial saying that the president is not guilty and denouncing
\nonce again what it calls a witch hunt masterminded by his political opponents.
\nSenate majority leader Mitch McConnel has called the impeachment of president
\nTrump ‘a colossal political mistake’ while United States House Speaker Nancy
\nPelosi said ‘president Trump remains a threat to American democracy’. The
\nSenate on Wednesday voted to acquit president Trump, 52-48 on charges of abuse
\nof power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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