BUCHAREST, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Romanian Prime Minister-designate Viorica Dancila late Wednesday vowed to go all out to implement the governing program, as well as to prepare to take over the Council Presidency of the European Union.
"I wait for the vote in the parliament," Dancila told a press statement she held together with Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea in the parliament.
According to her, it is important to put into practice the governing program, to celebrate 100 years since the Great Union on Dec. 1 of 1918, but at the same time, to make preparations in order to take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union on Jan. 1 of 2019.
Dancila was appointed by President Klaus Iohannis as prime minister Wednesday afternoon to form a new government. She will almost certainly get a vote of confidence in parliament at the end of the month, becoming the first woman prime minister in the history of this eastern European country.
Dancila, 54, became a member of the PSD in 1996. In 2014, she was elected as deputy in the European Parliament for a second term.
Before entering politics, she was an engineer with the then National Oil Company Petrom SA, and prior to that, a teacher at a secondary school.
Dancila will become the third head of government of the Social Democrats which won the parliamentary elections at the end of 2016.
Her predecessor Mihai Tudose, being recently in disagreement with party chairman Liviu Dragnea, was forced to resign late Monday after the PSD leadership decided to withdraw its political support for him.
Tudose took over as prime minister last June, from Sorin Grindeanu who lost power in a no-confidence vote brought by his own party also due to a conflict with party leader Dragnea.
