The grand coalition forming the government, consisting of Social Democratic Party (PSD), National Liberal Party (PNL), and Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ), is also referred to as the National Coalition for Romania (Romanian: Coaliția Națională pentru România, CNR).

[4][5][6][7] Under Ciucă's premiership, Romania experienced democratic backsliding,[8] with The Economist ranking it last in the European Union in the world terms of democracy,[9] even behind Viktor Orbán's Hungary.

On 1 September 2021, the PNL, then-prime minister Florin Cîțu and still incumbent president Klaus Iohannis triggered the 2021 Romanian political crisis by the sacking of former justice minister Stelian Ion, preceded by a scandal between the PNL and their former coalition partners, the progressive-liberal USR PLUS (from which Ion stemmed), on the so-called Anghel Saligny investment program (or "PNDL 3", as it is also known).

[15][16] The prime minister candidate, who is designated by the president,[17] has to request the investiture vote/vote of confidence from the legislature within 10 days from being appointed.

The next shuffle was originally planned to take place by 1 June 2023,[33][34] though this was delayed on 26 May following a general strike in the Romanian education system that began a few days earlier.