BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania’s top court on Wednesday rejected two challenges brought against measures to lower the budget deficit but said it would postpone a decision on two others, prolonging uncertainty over the stability of the broad coalition government.

The measures, which the government fast-tracked through parliament, are part of wider efforts aimed at bringing down the fiscal shortfall towards 6% of economic output next year from more than 9% last year.

The measures, with an overall budget impact of roughly 10.6 billion lei ($2.42 billion), were broken down into five bills to avoid having the court strike all of them down. The court initially met on September 24 before postponing a ruling on four of the five bills to October 8.

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