The prime minister of Romania,officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania,is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially,the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers,when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet,and the Cabinet was called the Council of Ministers. The title was officially changed to Prime Minister by the 1965 Constitution of Romania during the communist regime.
The Social Democratic Party is the largest political party in Romania. It is also the largest social democratic political party in the country. 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 Christian democratic and socially 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 of its kind from the family of European liberal parties as well.
Dan Mircea Geoană is a Romanian politician and diplomat,who served as the deputy secretary general of NATO between 2019 and 2024. He previously served as president of the Senate of Romania from December 2008 until he was revoked in November 2011. From April 2005 until February 2010,he was the head of the Social Democratic Party.
The Senate is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania. It has 136 seats,to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation in 43 electoral districts,to serve four-year terms.
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 referred to by his initials KWI in the Romanian press,is a Romanian politician,physicist,and former physics teacher who has been serving as the sixth president of Romania since 2014.
Margareta,Custodian of the Crown of Romania is the eldest daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania. She assumed her father's duties in March 2016,upon his retirement,and has claimed the headship of the House of Romania since his death on 5 December 2017. She also heads the Margareta of Romania Royal Foundation.
Parliamentary 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-Cristian Maior is a Romanian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Romanian Parliament,elected as a senator from the Social Democrat Party. He was the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service between October 2006 –January 2015 and ambassador to the United States since September 17,2015. His father,Liviu Maior,is the former Minister of Education (1992–1996) and ambassador to Canada.
Bordei Park is a small park in Sector 1 of Bucharest,in the northern part of the city. The area has a difficult history,with the status and ownership of the park having changed several times throughout the years.
Dan Stoenescu is a Romanian career diplomat,political scientist and journalist. He was a minister in the technocratic government of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș.
Radu Mircea Berceanu is a Romanian engineer and politician. A former member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L),he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Dolj County from 1990 to 2004,and sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2012,representing the same county. In the Radu Vasile and Mugur Isărescu cabinets,he was Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1998 to 2000;in the first Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet,he was Minister of Transport,Construction and Tourism from 2006 to 2007;and in the Emil Boc cabinet,he was Minister of Transport and Infrastructure from December 2008 to September 2010. From October to December 2009,he was also acting Minister of Agriculture following the political crisis that led to the withdrawal of the Social Democratic Party from government.
Daniel Ciugureanu was a Romanian politician from Bessarabia,deputy in Sfatul Țării from Chișinău,Prime Minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic from 29 January [O.S. 16 January] 1918–21 April [O.S. 8 April] 1918,Minister for Bessarabia in four Romanian Governments,Deputy and Senator,vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies,vice-president and President of the Senate of Kingdom of Romania.
Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 9 December 2012. The Social Liberal Union (USL) co-led by former Prime Minister Victor Ponta won an absolute majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. At the time of the elections,despite the severe weather in several parts of the country,the turnout was approximately 42%,slightly higher than the last parliamentary elections held in 2008 which saw a turnout of 39%.
Parliamentary 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.
Ion-Marcel Ciolacu is a Romanian politician who currently serves as the Prime Minister of Romania. He is also the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). As a previously little-known politician outside of Buzău County,where he owns a pastry shop and a consulting firm,Ciolacu came into national prominence when he became the deputy prime minister in 2018 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mihai Tudose. Allegedly,he was given this office in order to report Tudose's activities to Liviu Dragnea,who had been unable to become prime minister himself and was wary of Tudose becoming a power player in the party. Ciolacu soon broke with Dragnea and became an ally of Tudose against Dragnea's leadership. After Tudose's resignation,Ciolacu was marginalized within PSD but still retained the leadership of PSD Buzău. Ciolacu once again returned to prominence in 2019 after Liviu Dragnea had been convicted on abuse of office and incitement to intellectual forgery charges,having to serve a 3 years,6 months sentence. With the Social Democrats still controlling a majority both in the Chamber and in the Senate,Ciolacu won the position of President of the Chamber of Deputies,with 172 votes for and 120 against,previously held by Dragnea himself.
Viorel Cataramă is a Romanian businessman and politician who founded the furniture manufacturer Elvila in 1990. In 2019,he founded the Liberal Right Party (DL) and ran on its behalf for the 2019 Romanian presidential election where he received a very modest result,thereby by failing to qualify to the second round by a tremendous margin.
Alexandru Nazare is a Romanian politician,Minister of Finance of Romania between December 2020 and July 2021,senator elected in the 2020 parliamentary elections and the special representative of the Romanian Government for Romania's candidacy for hosting the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre,2020. Previously in 2012,he held the position of Minister of Transport and Infrastructure and in December 2008,he became the youngest representative of Romania in the European Parliament.
Marius-Constantin Budăi is a Romanian deputy,elected in 2016 and 2020.
