The Chamber of Deputies record shows no joint sitting of parliament from 22 to 27 September 2026, and Siegfried Muresan's confidence vote was set for 29 September, so no Muresan government won confidence by 27 September.
Hunch. Every one of the three candidates who won in this record had the numbers assembled before the vote, and Muresan does not: the two largest groups in the lower house both declared against him within hours of being told he was the nominee.
The government market resolves on the record of joint sittings published by the Chamber of Deputies at cdep.ro, which lists each sitting of the two chambers with its agenda and the result of each item on the day it sits. It resolves YES if a joint sitting on or before 27 September 2026 grants the confidence of parliament to a government headed by Siegfried Muresan. A sitting that rejects it, a sitting that is adjourned, or no sitting at all, all resolve NO, and so does confidence granted to a government headed by anyone else. If the parliamentary pages have not updated, reports in Politico Europe and Reuters settle it.
We looked at every candidate for prime minister named in Romania since 2015 whose ten days have run out, using the records of the joint sittings of parliament. There are five, and three of them won a vote of confidence within the ten days. Nicolae Ciuca was named twice within five weeks in the same crisis, so his two tries count as one. This summer's two candidates, Eugen Tomac and Adrian Vestea, are left out because they belong to the crisis this story is about. The vote dates and numbers come from parliament's own records. The dates each candidate was named come from the press, because the president's website could not be reached.