The Social Democratic Party is the largest social democratic political party in Romania and also the largest overall political party in the country. It was founded by Ion Iliescu,Romania's first democratically elected president at the 1990 Romanian general election.
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.
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is a Romanian historian,politician and former Prime Minister of Romania. He was the foreign minister of Romania from 28 December 2004 to 12 March 2007,and he was appointed as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service later in 2007. Following the resignation of the Emil Boc government he was appointed Prime Minister serving through April 2012 when his cabinet was dismissed following a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. He was confirmed by the Parliament for a second term as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service,after President Klaus Iohannis nominated him in June 2015 but he resigned in September 2016,citing health issues.
The Székely Land (Szeklerland) is a historic and ethnographic region in Eastern Transylvania,in the center of Romania. The primary goal for the Hungarian political organisations in Romania is to achieve Székely autonomy. The Szeklers make up about half of the Hungarians in Romania and live in an ethnic block. According to official data from Romania's 2011 census,609,033 persons in Mureș,Harghita,and Covasna counties consider themselves Hungarian. The Székelys (Szeklers),a Hungarian sub-group,are mainly concentrated in these three counties.
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.
Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă is a Romanian politician,former leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),and was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 January 2018 to 4 November 2019. She is the first woman in Romanian history to hold both the office of Prime Minister and that of president of the PSD. In 2014,she was elected to a second term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP),representing the PSD. She was also president of the Social Democratic Women's Organization (OFSD) between 2015 and 2018.
Lia Olguţa Vasilescu is a Romanian politician,member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). She served as mayor of Craiova from 2012 to 2017,when she resigned to become Minister of Labor. She was reelcted as Mayor of Craiova in 2020 and since then she has been serving as the Mayor of Craiova.
The Fourth Ponta Cabinet was the government of Romania from 17 December 2014 to 4 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.
Sorin Mihai Grindeanu is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania from January to June 2017 when he was removed by a motion of no confidence adopted by the Parliament. He served as ad interim President of the Chamber of Deputies in November 2021. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of Romania since 25 November 2021 as a part of the CiucăCabinet,along with Hunor Kelemen.
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.
There were numerous protests against the Romanian Government between 2017 and 2019. In January 2017,days after the government of the Grindeanu Cabinet was sworn into office in Romania,protests took place throughout the country against ordinance bills that were proposed by the Romanian Ministry of Justice regarding the pardoning of certain committed crimes,and the amendment of the Penal Code of Romania. At the heart of these protests is the community Corruption Kills,founded by Florin Bădiță,who alongside other civic groups organized what proved to be the largest protests since 1989,thus realizing the "Revolution of our generation".
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.
Presidential elections were held in Romania on 10 November 2019,with a second round held on 24 November 2019. Incumbent President of Romania Klaus Iohannis,first elected in 2014,was eligible for re-election. He defeated Viorica Dăncilăin the second round of the election,receiving 66 percent of the vote –the second-highest vote share on record after Ion Iliescu.
The DăncilăCabinet was the 128th Government of Romania. It was led by Viorica Dăncilă,who assumed office as Prime Minister of Romania on 29 January 2018. The cabinet took office on 29 January.
European Parliament elections were held in Romania on 26 May 2019.
Ion-Marcel Ciolacu is a Romanian politician and the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). A previously little known politician,Ciolacu came into national prominence when he was propped up by a former leader of the Social Democratic Party to become deputy prime minister in 2018 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mihai Tudose. Initially given this office in order to control Tudose and report of his 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. When Tudose was forced to resign from office due to Dragnea's scheming,Ciolacu was marginalized.
Nicolae Ionel Ciucă is a Romanian politician and retired general of the Romanian Land Forces. He has been serving as Prime Minister of Romania since 25 November 2021 after receiving widespread parliamentary support on behalf of his own party,the National Liberal Party (PNL) as well as the Social Democratic Party (PSD),and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ). Additionally,since 10 April 2022,he has also been serving as the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL).
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.
The National Coalition for Romania is a grand coalition in Romania,which includes the Social Democratic Party (PSD),the National Liberal Party (PNL),and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ). In addition,this grand coalition supports the incumbent Romanian President Klaus Iohannis as well,who,on his turn,praised the coalition for its activity in early 2022,stating that "the Romanian political class has shown democratic maturity".
Lucian Romașcanu is a Romanian politician,elected senator in 2016 in Buzău County on the lists of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). In 2017,he served as Minister of Culture in the government of Mihai Tudose. Since January 2017,he has been the Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Media of the Romanian Senate.
