Romania's pro-EU parties clinch deal to form coalition government

The parties have agreed to potentially endorse a single candidate in new presidential elections after the first round was annulled last week.

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00:00Pro-European parties in Romania say they have reached an agreement to ensure a majority

00:06in parliament and the formation of a new government, a move that potentially cordons off the hard

00:12right.

00:13According to a joint statement, the four parties on Wednesday said they were considering supporting

00:19a single candidate in the presidential re-run.

00:22The commitment comes after the country's top court annulled the general elections over

00:27accusations of Russian meddling.

00:30The constitutional court on Friday said the entire process would need to be re-run.

00:35The parliamentary ballot was sandwiched in between two rounds of a presidential pull

00:40during which the far-right's Karin Dujescu emerged from relative obscurity to become

00:45the shock front-runner.

00:47The cancellation of the pull has been greeted with mixed reactions by the leader of the

00:51far-right alliance for the unity of Romanians, describing it as an attack against democracy.

00:57The new government will need to come up with a new calendar for the presidential pull.

01:02Romania's outgoing president, Claus Ioannis, will stay on until a new president is sworn

01:07in.