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.
Dacian Julien Cioloș is a Romanian agronomist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from November 2015 to January 2017. He previously served as Agriculture Minister under Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu between October 2007 and December 2008. In November 2009,European Commission President JoséManuel Barroso nominated him to be the next Agriculture Commissioner,a position he assumed in February 2010 and held until his term expired in November 2014. In November 2015,President Klaus Iohannis named him prime minister;Cioloșassumed office after receiving approval from Parliament.
Nicușor Dan is a Romanian activist,mathematician,former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania as well as founder and former leader of the Romanian political party Save Romania Union (USR). He is currently serving as the Mayor of Bucharest following the 2020 Romanian local elections as an independent politician. He is expected to serve another term as Mayor,following his victory in the 2024 Romanian local elections.
The People's Movement Party is a minor extra-parliamentary national-conservative and social conservative political party in Romania.
The Save Romania Union is a centre to centre-right political party in Romania. It is currently the third largest party in the Parliament of Romania with 41 deputies and 20 senators,and a fifth at local level nationwide,after the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) and the People's Movement Party (PMP),two smaller centre-right political parties in the country.
Dan Barna is a Romanian politician and lawyer. He served as the president of the Save Romania Union (USR),and as co-president of USR-PLUS until 1 October 2021. He was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2016.
The Party of Liberty,Unity and Solidarity was a pro-European,liberal political party established on 26 October 2018,whose president was Dacian Cioloș,former Prime Minister of Romania from 2015 until 2017,elected on 26 January 2019. The party had its origin in the Movement Romania Together (MRÎ),a project which they gave up due to the setting up delay in court. The party merged in 2021 with the Save Romania Union (USR) with which it has been in a political alliance called 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance from 2019 to 2021,then formally activating as a sole,unified party known as USR PLUS.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Romanian was held on 9 June 2024. This was the fifth European Parliament election to be held in Romania since the country's accession to the European Union in 2007 and the first since Brexit.
USR PLUS was a Romanian progressive,liberal,and centrist political alliance active between 2019 and 2021. Established on 2 February 2019 solely as an electoral alliance between the political parties Save Romania Union (USR) and the Freedom,Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS) it was initially called 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance. The alliance was formed to participate together in the May 2019 European Parliament election in Romania.
Cătălin Drulă is a Romanian politician who served as the president of the Save Romania Union (USR) political party,until his resignation in 2024,and as an incumbent member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies,elected as a deputy for TimișCounty at the 2020 Romanian legislative election.
Alin Cristian Mituța is a Romanian politician of REPER who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2020.
Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Romania on 1 December 2024.
Presidential elections will be held in Romania on 24 November 2024. A second round will be held on 8 December 2024 if no candidate receives an absolute majority of the vote. They will be the ninth presidential elections held in post-1989 Romania. As the Romanian Constitution allows a president to be re-elected only once,the incumbent,Klaus Iohannis,first elected in 2014 and then re-elected in 2019,is not eligible for re-election. His second term will formally end in December 2024.
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).
Force of the Right,sometimes translated as Right's Force or Right Force,is a liberal-conservative political party in Romania founded in December 2021 by Ludovic Orban,former National Liberal Party (PNL) president and former Prime Minister of Romania between 2019 and 2020,in opposition to the current leadership of the PNL which is currently officially led by Nicolae Ciucăand unofficially by Klaus Iohannis.
The CiucăCabinet was the 132nd government of Romania led by former Romanian Land Forces army general Nicolae Ciucăfrom 25 November 2021 to 12 June 2023.
The National Coalition for Romania,initially referred to as the Coalition for Resilience,Development and Prosperity,is a big tent grand coalition in Romania,which includes the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL). In addition,this grand coalition supports the presidency of Klaus Iohannis. The CNR also included the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) until its withdrawal from the coalition in June 2023.
Renewing Romania's European Project is a political party in Romania. It is a splinter of the Save Romania Union (USR) and is currently led by DragoșPîslaru and Ramona Strugariu as co-presidents. The party was founded in May 2022,in opposition to USR's current leadership under Cătălin Drulă. The party is mostly associated with former technocratic Prime Minister and former USR president Dacian Cioloș,who founded the party. On 7 May 2023,Pîslaru and Strugariu were voted co-presidents at the latest congress of the party.
Cristian-Paul Ichim is a Romanian politician of the Justice and Respect in Europe for All Party. In the 2020 parliamentary election,he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of the Save Romania Union until 2022,when he switched to Renewing Romania's European Project. Since 2024,he has been a member of the Justice and Respect in Europe for All Party.
Andrei-Răzvan Lupu is a Romanian politician of Renewing Romania's European Project. Since 2020,he has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was elected as a member of the Freedom,Unity and Solidarity Party,and became a member of the Save Romania Union when the parties merged. He switched to the newly founded Renewing Romania's European Project in 2022. In the 2024 European Parliament election,he was a candidate for member of the European Parliament.
