...STOCKHOLM (S&P Global Ratings) Sept. 13, 2021--S&P Global Ratings said today that it does not expect imminent risks to Romania's (###-/Stable/A-3) near-term fiscal consolidation plans following the resignation on Sept. 7, of USR Plus ministers from the government coalition. USR Plus' withdrawal, following a series of policy clashes and intra-coalition tensions, will require Prime Minister Florin Citu to seek parliamentary reapproval for his now minority cabinet within 45 days. This comes at a time when the government is set to engage with the European authorities to secure funds from the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility. We assume, in our base case, that the government would aim to preserve its capacity to function over the short term in order to contract this funding, which we understand is ready to be disbursed. The adoption of Romania's budget rectification for 2021 last week suggests that there is capacity to execute policy, in our view. That said, persistent uncertainty could...
