Baku-APA. Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced the ministers in his new cabinet on Monday, a week after the split of the former ruling Social Liberal Union (USL), APA reports quoting XInhua.
Ponta is to seek a vote of confidence for the ministers at the Parliament's plenary sitting on Tuesday.
The prime minister, also leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), signed an agreement earlier Monday with head of the Hungarian Democratic Union (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor on the latter's joining the government.
According to the document, UDMR is part of the governing formula and commits to the government's 2013-2016 program passed by the Romanian Parliament on Dec. 21, 2012. UDMR will have members appointed to the government as ministers and secretaries of state, proportionally to its share of the parliamentary majority.
In the new cabinet consisted of 25 ministers, four of them will be also deputy prime ministers, UDMR will have two ministers, with one minister serves also deputy prime minister.
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