Romania’s prime minister-designate Dacian Cioloș has named a technocratic government, tapping European Union experts as well as private sector leaders to steer the country until elections next year.

Cioloș, 46, was asked by President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday to form a new government after Victor Ponta stepped down in the wake of mass protests against the government, which is blamed for the deaths of 55 people in a nightclub fire in Bucharest.

“My goal was to name competent and experienced people, Romanians who work in European Union administration or in civil society,” said Cioloș, a former EU agriculture commissioner.

Anca Paliu Dragu, who is a former International Monetary Fund expert and European commission economic analyst, will head the finance ministry, a key post with the government’s first order of business being the preparation a budget for 2016.

Incoming justice minister Cristina Guseth worked for the European commission and has headed the Romanian branch of pro-democracy group Freedom House since 1998.

Mihnea Motoc, the Romanian ambassador to the UK, was named minister of defence, while Achim Irimescu, an adviser to the Romanian delegation to Brussels, was given the post of agriculture minister.

Several members of the incoming government, including heads of economy and communications, are from the private and non-profit sectors.

Cioloș is expected to be confirmed in a vote of confidence on Tuesday. He has the backing of the opposition conservatives and is expected to have the support of the Social Democrats, who were in power before Ponta resigned.