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Victor Ponta loses Lower Chamber Speaker office he ran for without Dragnea’s endorsement: Florin Iordache remains acting Speaker until after the elections

June 15, 2016

Lower Chamber member Florin Iordache (PSD) will remain acting Speaker until after the parliamentary elections next autumn, the Social Democrats decided on Tuesday at the National Executive Committee meeting convened at the Palace of Parliament in order to decide who was going to replace Valeriu Zgonea. Ex-Premier Victor Ponta stated that PSD President Liviu Dragnea […]

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