Eduard Raul Hellvig is a Romanian political scientist,journalist and politician who served as director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) from 2015 to 2023. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and previously of the Conservative Party (PC),he represented Bihor County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 2004 to 2008,and sat for Ilfov County from 2012 to 2013. In the Victor Ponta cabinet,he was Minister of Regional Development and Tourism in 2012. During 2007,he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Romania,a position he once again took up in 2013,and which he left upon becoming SRI director.
Gabriel Oprea is a Romanian politician and a general in the army reserves. The former president of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and a former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who is now an independent,he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Ilfov County from 2004 to 2012 and was a Senator for Bucharest from 2012 to 2016.
Victor Viorel Ponta is a Romanian jurist and politician,who served as Prime Minister of Romania between his appointment by President Traian Băsescu in May 2012 and his resignation in November 2015. A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader from 2010 to 2015,he was also joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL),an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County from 2004 to 2020. In the Emil Boc cabinet,he was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.
Liviu Nicolae Dragnea is a Romanian engineer and former politician. Starting his career in the Democratic Party (PD),he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD),eventually becoming its leader. After holding several positions as Minister,he resigned from the cabinet in May 2015,following a conviction in a case involving electoral fraud,for which he received a two-year suspended sentence in April 2016.
Sorina Bucuraș,better known as Sorina-Luminița Plăcintă,is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party and formerly of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L),she was a member of the Romanian Senate for Vrancea County from 2008 to 2012. In the Emil Boc cabinet,she was Minister of Youth and Sport from July to December 2009,and interim Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from October to December 2009.
Ecaterina Andronescu is a Romanian engineer,professor,and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),she sat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2008,representing Bucharest,and was a Senator from 2008 until 2020,for the same city. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet,she was Education Minister from 2000 until June 2003. She held the same position in the cabinet of Emil Boc from 2008 to 2009,in the Victor Ponta cabinet during 2012,and finally in the Viorica Dăncilăcabinet for under 9 months between November 2018 and August 2019. She is married and has one child.
Presidential elections were held in Romania in 2014. They were the seventh presidential elections held in post-1989 Romania. In the first round of the elections on 2 November,the top two of the fourteen candidates qualified in a run-off on 16 November. These candidates were Victor Ponta,former Prime Minister and ex-leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who won around 40% of the vote in the first round,and Klaus Iohannis,then mayor of Sibiu and leader of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL),who won around 30% in the first round respectively. Following large protests on how Ponta's government organized the elections in the diaspora,Klaus Iohannis staged a surprising come-back and won the run-off with 54.5%,or more than a million votes than his contender.
The following lists events that happened during 2013 in Romania.
Ponta II Cabinet was the Council of Ministers which governed Romania from 21 December 2012 to 5 March 2014. A crisis inside the ruling coalition,the Social Liberal Union (USL),resulted in the split of the governing alliance and collapse of the government.
This is a list of 2014 events that occurred in Romania.
Ioana Maria Petrescu is a Romanian economist who served as the country's Finance Minister. She is a public policy scholar at Harvard Kennedy School and runs a Romanian NGO "Pur și Simplu Verde" that supports local governments in their efforts to transition to a greener economy.
The 2012–2015 unrest in Romania refers to a prolonged period of civil unrest and political scandals in Romania,which took magnitude after the second half of the 2000s. The wave of civil demonstrations started in January 2012,once with the introduction of a new health reform legislation. The protests were fueled by the austerity measures applied in May 2010,but also by the unpopularity of Băsescu-backed Boc government. The demonstrations were characterized by widespread rioting and acts of vandalism. The political situation precipitated,so Prime Minister Emil Boc decided to step down on 6 February 2012.
The Fourth Ponta Cabinet was the government of Romania from 17 December 2014 to 17 November 2015. The Cabinet was supported by the Social Democratic Party (PSD),the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE),the alliance forged by Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu's Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) and Daniel Constantin's Conservative Party (PC). Fourteen of the ministerial portfolios were held by PSD members,three by ALDE,two by UNPR and two by independent members.
Darius Vâlcov was a Romanian politician who served as Minister of Finance,Mayor of Slatina and Senator.
Mircea Dușa was a Romanian economist and politician,who was the minister of the Interior from 6 August to 21 December 2012,and then Minister of National Defense from 21 December 2012 to 17 November 2015,both times in the cabinets of former Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
Sorin Mihai Cîmpeanu is a Romanian politician who served as Minister of Education in CiucăCabinet. He had previously held the same position in Ponta IV and Cîțu cabinets,and,between 5 and 17 November 2015,acted as Prime Minister of Romania,after President Klaus Iohannis accepted Prime Minister Ponta's resignation. Klaus Iohannis's appointment of Sorin Cîmpeanu was just a stopgap measure until a new candidate for the post was selected.
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.
Mihai Tudose is a Romanian politician,deputy in the Parliament of Romania,a former Minister of Economy in 2017 and a former Prime Minister of Romania in 2018. On 16 January,2018 he resigned from his position as Prime Minister after his own Social Democratic Party (PSD) retracted its political support for his government. He subsequently switched from PSD to Victor Ponta's party PRO Romania in 2019.
Events from the year 2018 in Romania.
Events from the year 2023 in Romania.
