Awwal 02, 1432 H/Feb 05, 2011, SPA -- Three Romanian opposition parties agreed to an alliance on Saturday to increase pressure on Prime Minister Emil Boc and try and secure a majority in 2012 parliamentary elections. Boc slashed public salaries and raised value-added tax last year to cut Romania's budget deficit and comply with terms of a 20-billion-euro International Monetary Fund-led bailout, prompting the opposition to file a series of censure motions. "We will succeed together in 2012," Reuters quoted Social Democrat leader Victor Ponta as telling party delegates gathered in parliament. The new opposition alliance had a combined 64 percent support in the most recent opinion poll, versus just 15 percent for Boc's Democrat Liberals. Boc's party won about 33 percent of the vote in the last parliamentary elections in late 2008.
