One quarter of the Romanians consider that central bank governor Mugur Isarescu is best fitted for taking over as the next Prime Minister of Romania, found a survey conducted by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy (IRES) given to publicity on Wednesday.

At the question 'Who do you think should be the next Prime Minister of the Romanian government?', 25 pct of the respondents named the BNR governor. Next in the preferences of the interviewed is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, in the opposition) Victor Ponta (9 pct), followed by Sibiu mayor Klaus Johannis (6 pct), current Prime Minister Emil Boc (3 pct), leader of the opposition's National Liberal Party Crin Antonescu, Adrian Nastase (PSD) and Romania's representative to the IMF Mihai Tanasescu - with 2 pct.

Another 41 pct of the polled replied 'I do not know' at the same question.
According to the IRES poll, 84 pct of the respondents have heard of 'talks being held between President Traian Basescu and the ruling parties about the possible replacement of PM Emil Boc,' and 65 pct have a good and very good opinion about this prospective move.

At the same time, however, 60 pct of the respondents believe that the replacement of Emil Boc will not change the confidence in the current ruling line-up.

As for the appointment of an independent Prime Minister, 47 pct of the polled said that they agree to a large and very large extent, whereas 51 pct declared that they approve of this version to a small and very small extent.

Romanian trust Romania's National Bank (BNR) the most, shows this opinion poll conducted on Feb 18 by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy (IRES) on how much the citizens trust the state institutions.

According to IRES, BNR enjoys the confidence of more than half, namely 59 percent of the respondents while the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) of 37 percent of them, and 33percent of them put their trust in the Romanian Police.

Likewise, less than one third, namely 27 percent of the Romanians have confidence in the National Anticorruption Department, and 23 percent in the Justice and 19 percent in the trade unions.The presidency wins the confidence of 15 percent of the respondents, the Parliament of ten percent of them, whilst 8 percent only trust the Government.

The opinion poll was conducted by the CATI method on a sample of 1,100 people, and has an error margin of plus, minus 3 percent, Agerpres reports.