Amid corruption concerns, Romania to vote for 1st female PM
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Viorica Dancila is expected to win parliamentary approval to become Romania's first female prime minister, and the third premier in a year.
The left-wing government faces protests and criticism from the European Union over legislation it is passing that critics say will make it hard to prosecute high-level corruption.
Dancila, a supporter of the proposals that include banning the use of audio and video recordings in prosecutions, is a member of the European Parliament and a relative unknown in domestic politics until this month.
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She will likely act as an administrator, with government policy decided by powerful Social Democrat chairman Liviu Dragnea, who can't be premier due to a conviction for vote-rigging.
The 27 ministers, some themselves subjects of corruption probes, appeared before a parliament committee Monday, ahead of the vote.