The three parties have a comfortable 65% majority in Parliament and the president has to name a prime minister that will have parliamentary support.
Johannis, 50, has been mayor of the central city of Sibiu since 2000 and has been re-elected twice. He is the Democratic Forum of Germans, a small centrist party devoted to the interests of Romania’s 60,000 ethnic Germans and which has never been represented in the Romanian Parliament.
The parties said in their letter to the president they want Johannis to lead a government that can manage urgent economic issues, organize free and fair elections and restore confidence in the administration.
After talks with party representatives in the Senate, Johannis said he has accepted to be proposed for prime minister. He declined to suggest any names he would include in his Cabinet if appointed, but said he is in favor of a technocratic government.
Romanian democrat liberal Prime Minister Emil Boc’s minority government lost a confidence vote in Parliament Tuesday, less than two months before presidential elections on November 22. However, his government stays in office, with limited powers, until a new government is sworn in.