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BUCHAREST, Jan. 29-- Romania's first woman Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and her cabinet were sworn in before President Klaus Iohannis late Monday. Dancila's cabinet, the third Social Democratic government in less than 13 months, won the vote of confidence in the parliament earlier, with 282 votes in favor, 136 against and one abstention, much more than the required 233 votes, thus half plus one of the total MPs. President Iohannis, who has long been in disagreement with the ruling party, did not give up the chance to criticize his main political opponent, led by Speaker of the Deputy Chamber Liviu Dragnea. "I hope that with the investiture of the third cabinet proposed by the parliamentary majority, the government hopping will also end, which last year led to the degradation of the social climate, to a mood that can not be beneficial to the development of a society," Iohannis said after the swearing-in ceremony. The new prime minister, in her turn, said earlier that she is "totally open to dialogue with all political forces, with the Romanian president", to generate consensus on issues concerning national interests. "My term's goal is that, in 2020, Romania will be in the top half of the ranking of the strongest economies in the European Union, so that the youth should no longer leave Romania, and those who already left wish to come back home," said Dancila. "I have proposed to take this mandate for three years together with the ministers," the new prime minister suggested that she would not step down after several months in office like her two predecessors. | 
