Boc’s Cabinet got 276 votes in favor and 135 against. It needed 236 votes to pass.
The government, made up of democrat liberals, members of the Hungarian minority party UDMR and independents, plans to hold a Cabinet meeting later in the day to approve the state budget, which it will forward to Parliament for adoption by mid-January.
Romania has been without a legitimate government since Boc’s previous Cabinet collapsed in a no-confidence vote in October, which prompted international financial institutions to withhold further disbursements of the EUR20 billion loan the country needs to fight the recession until a legitimate Cabinet is installed.