Theodor Dumitru Stolojan is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from September 1991 to November 1992. An economist by training,he was also one of the presidents of the National Liberal Party (PNL) before being the founding leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) and then the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL). He was a Member of the European Parliament for Romania,representing the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) and then the National Liberal Party.
The National Liberal Party is the largest centre-right conservative-liberal and 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 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.
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.
The Democratic Party was a social democratic and,later on,centre-right political party in Romania. In January 2008,it merged with the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD),a splinter group of the National Liberal Party (PNL),to form the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).
Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 December 2004 to 22 December 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR),two positions he assumed in 2004.
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.
George Crin Laurențiu Antonescu is a Romanian politician,who was President of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 2009 to 2014. He also served as the country Acting President after the impeachment of Traian Băsescu and as the President of the Senate.
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 second Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu 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.
Radu Stroe is a Romanian navigational engineer and politician. An independent,he was formerly a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). He was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for MaramureșCounty from 2000 to 2004,and sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2008,representing the same county. He returned to the Chamber in 2010,representing Bucharest,and started a new term in 2012,sitting for Ilfov County. In the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet,he was Minister Delegate for the General Secretariat of the Government from 2006 to 2007. In Victor Ponta's first cabinet,he was Minister Delegate for Administration between August and December 2012,when he was promoted to Interior Minister. He resigned that post in January 2014.
In Romania's 2004 general election,held on 28 November,no party won an outright majority. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the largest number of seats but was in opposition because the Justice and Truth Alliance (DA),the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ),the Romanian Humanist Party,and the National Minorities formed a governing coalition. The Conservative Party (PC) withdrew in December 2006,meaning that the government lost the majority. In April 2007,the liberal Prime Minister,Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu,dismissed the Democratic Party (PD) ministers from the government and formed a minority government with the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ),thereby marking the end of the Justice and Truth Alliance (DA).
Lucian Croitoru is a Romanian economist. On October 15,2009,following the defeat of Emil Boc's government through a motion of no confidence,President Traian Băsescu nominated Croitoru to be Prime Minister of Romania. The nomination was opposed by a majority of Parliament,which adopted a declaration asking for his withdrawal,and vowing support for the candidature of Klaus Iohannis. Croitoru assembled a proposed cabinet,but this was voted down by Parliament on November 4.
Tudor-Alexandru Chiuariu is a Romanian lawyer and politician. An independent,he served as Justice Minister in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet from April to December 2007. He represented Bacău County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2012,and has represented Mehedinți County in the Romanian Senate since 2012.
Relu Fenechiu is a Romanian businessman and former politician. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL),he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Iași County from 2004 to 2014. In the Victor Ponta cabinet,he served as Transport Minister from 2012 to 2013. Convicted of corruption in 2013,he went to prison the following year and was released in 2017.
Cristian Alexandru Boureanu is a Romanian businessman and politician. A former member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L),he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for ArgeșCounty from 2004 to 2012.
Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu is a Romanian lawyer and politician who served as president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from December 2014 until December 2016. She was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from December 2008 to December 2016. Since the latter date,she has represented TimișCounty in the Romanian Senate.
Teodor Atanasiu is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL),he was Minister of National Defence in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet from December 2004 to October 2006. He was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Alba County from 2008 to 2016.
Legislative elections were held in Romania on 6 December 2020 to elect the 136 members of the Senate and the 330 constituent members of the Chamber of Deputies.
The Cîțu Cabinet was the 131st government of Romania,led by the national liberal (PNL) Prime Minister Florin Cîțu. It was removed from office after a motion of no confidence passed by the Parliament with a record of 281 votes,the largest number of votes on a motion of no confidence since the Romanian Revolution.
A political crisis began on 1 September 2021 in Romania,engulfing both major coalition partners of the Cîțu Cabinet,namely the conservative-liberal National Liberal Party (PNL) and the progressive-liberal Save Romania Union (USR). The crisis also involved former prime minister Ludovic Orban (PNL),who was set to face Prime Minister Florin Cîțu (PNL) in a leadership election during the party congress on 25 September,with the latter eventually replacing the former. Orban would eventually resign from his position as President of the Chamber of Deputies,with him and his supporters subsequently splitting from the PNL,in order to form the Force of the Right (FD).
