Sibiu County is a county of Romania,in the historical region of Transylvania. Its county seat is the namesake town of Sibiu.
Sibiu is a middle-sized well preserved fortified medieval town in central Romania,situated in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some 275 km (171 mi) north-west of Bucharest,the town straddles the Cibin River,a tributary of the river Olt. Now the county seat of the Sibiu County,between 1692 and 1791 and 1849–65 Sibiu was the capital of the Principality of Transylvania. During the Modern era,the Hecht hause in Sibiu served as the seat of the Transylvanian Saxon University.
The Social Democratic Party is the largest social democratic political party in Romania and also the largest overall political party in the country,aside from European Parliament level,where it is the second largest by total number of MEPs,after the National Liberal Party (PNL). It was founded by Ion Iliescu,Romania's first democratically elected president at the 1990 Romanian general election. It is currently part of the National Coalition for Romania (CNR),which is a big tent grand coalition comprising also the National Liberal Party (PNL). The CNR formerly included the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) until mid June 2023.
The National Liberal Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Romania. Re-founded in mid January 1990,shortly after the Revolution of 1989 which culminated in the fall of communism in Romania,it claims the legacy of the major political party of the same name,active between 1875 and 1947 in the Kingdom of Romania. Based on this historical legacy,it often presents itself as the first formally constituted political party in the country and the oldest party from the family of European liberal parties as well.
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 330 total seats to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation to serve four-year terms. Additionally,the organisation of each national ethnic minority is entitled to a seat in the Chamber.
Romania elects on a national level a head of state –the president –and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people. The Romanian Parliament has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies has currently 330 members,elected for a four-year term by party-list proportional representation on closed lists. The Senate has currently 136 members,elected for a four-year term by party-list proportional representation on closed lists.
Klaus Werner Iohannis,sometimes shortly referred to as KWI in the Romanian press,is a Romanian politician,physicist,and former teacher who has been serving as the president of Romania since 2014. He became the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014,after previously serving as the leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) between 2002 and 2013. Prior to entering national politics,Iohannis was a physics teacher in his native Sibiu.
The Germans of Romania represent one of the most significant historical ethnic minorities of Romania.
Săliște is a town in Sibiu County,in the centre of Romania,21 km (13 mi) west of the county capital,Sibiu. Declared a town in 2003,it is the main locality in the Mărginimea Sibiului area.
Miercurea Sibiului is a town in the west of Sibiu County,in southern Transylvania,central Romania,34 km (21 mi) to the west of the county capital,Sibiu.
The Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania is a political party organised on ethnic criteria representing the interests of the German minority in Romania.
The Landlers or Transylvanian Landlers are an ethnic German sub-group which has been living on the territory of Romania,more specifically in southern Transylvania since the 18th century onwards.
Legislative elections were held in Romania on 30 November 2008. The Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) won three more seats than PSD in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate,although the alliance headed by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) won more votes and a fractionally higher vote share. The two parties subsequently formed a governing coalition with Emil Boc of the PDL as Prime Minister.
Local elections were held in Romania on 1 June 2008,with a runoff for mayors on 15 June 2008.
Ludovic Orban is a Romanian engineer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania from November 2019 to December 2020. He was president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) between 2017 and 2021,which expelled him shortly after he lost a bid for another term as its leader. He also served as Minister of Transport from April 2007 to December 2008 in the Tăriceanu II Cabinet.
Raluca Turcan is a Romanian politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL),she has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Sibiu County since 2004.
Legislative elections were held in Romania on 11 December 2016. They were the first held under a new electoral system adopted in 2015,which saw a return to the proportional electoral system last used in the 2004 elections. The new electoral legislation provides a norm of representation for deputies of 73,000 inhabitants and 168,000 inhabitants for senators,which decreased the number of MPs.
The Christian Liberal Alliance,also known as the PNL-PDL Alliance,was a centre-right electoral alliance in Romania.
The next Romanian legislative elections must be held at the latest before 21 March 2025,that is three months after the term of the incumbent legislature of the Romanian Parliament expires.
Local elections are most probably set to be held in Romania in September 2024. The previous Romanian local elections in 2020 were won by the National Liberal Party (PNL),even though the Social Democratic Party (PSD) came in with significantly more County Council (CJ) presidents and mayors than the national liberals.
