According to the agreement between Romania and the IMF, the budget deficit could rise to 7.3% instead of 4.6% as originally expected with the government facing increasing difficulties in paying public sector wages and pensions. Romanian authorities will be, in turn, obliged to increase the revenues and decrease the expenditures shifting towards fiscal stability. It can lead to unpopular measures, sharpening the conflicts between coalition partners, posing a stability challenge to the government.