Vladescu, an independent, has previously served as finance minister during the liberal government led by Calin Tariceanu.
Prime Minister-designate Emil Boc will seek Wednesday a confidence vote for a Cabinet of 15 ministers and a deputy prime minister.
Romania, which has been without a legitimate government since Boc’s Cabinet collapsed in a no confidence vote in October, relies heavily on an IMF-led bailout loan of nearly EUR20 billion. The country needs to have a government to send Parliament next year’s state budget for international financial institutions to unlock further loan disbursements.
The future government will also have to take unpopular measures such as laying off 100,000 public sector employees and reforming the country’s public pension system, eliminating privileged pensions such as those of lawmakers, magistrates military, law enforcement and intelligence services staff.
Vladescu told lawmakers during the hearing he doesn’t plan to raise any taxes and pledged to adopt strict wage policies to observe the country’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund.