Romania Set to Oust Premier Without Plan for the Day After

Ilie BolojanPhotographer: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo

Romanian lawmakers will vote on ousting Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan in a move that could plunge the country into a renewed political crisis and imperil efforts to narrow the widest budget deficit in the European Union.

The initiative has the backing of the two biggest parties in the legislature — the main far-right opposition group and the Social Democrats, which quit the ruling coalition last month over the unpopularity of fiscal cuts.