2019 in Romania
Incumbents
- President: Klaus Iohannis
- Prime Minister: Viorica Dăncilă (until 4 November) · Ludovic Orban (since 4 November)
- President of the Senate: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (until 2 September) · Teodor Meleșcanu (since 10 September)
- President of the Chamber of Deputies: Liviu Dragnea (until 27 May) · Marcel Ciolacu (since 29 May)
Events
May
- 26 May
- 2019 European Parliament election in Romania: The biggest opposition party – PNL – wins the vote in the country while the new opposition alliance made of USR and PLUS wins the vote in the big cities and diaspora.[1] The senior ruling party – PSD – gets a score of under 24%, down from 37.6% in the previous election.[2] Their coalition partners from ALDE drop under the 5% threshold.[1]
- The referendum against judicial amnesties reaches the required turnout to be valid.[3]
- 27 May – The High Court of Cassation and Justice upholds the ruling sentencing Liviu Dragnea, leader of the governing PSD, for three and a half years in jail for of his involvement in the hiring of two fictitious workers in his electoral stronghold.[4]
- 29 May – The Chamber of Deputies plenary elects Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu as its President.[5]
August
September
- 2 September – Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu resigns as President of the Senate.[7]
- 10 September – Teodor Meleșcanu is elected President of the Senate with 73 votes against PNL candidate Alina Gorghiu.[8]
October
- 10 October – Dăncilă Cabinet collapses after losing a no-confidence vote.[9]
November
- 4 November – PNL leader Ludovic Orban is voted in as the new Prime Minister of Romania.[10] PSD and PRO Romania officially boycott the vote.[11]
Deaths
- 5 January – Emil Brumaru, writer and poet (b. 1938)
- 8 January – Cornel Trăilescu, conductor and composer (b. 1926)
- 5 March – Doru Popovici, composer, musicologist, writer and journalist (b. 1932)
- 10 March – Gheorghe Naghi, director and actor (b. 1932)
- 18 March – Egon Balas, mathematician and economist (b. 1922)
- 23 March – Tudor Caranfil, film critic, TV producer and film historian (b. 1931)
- 24 March – Cornelia Tăutu, composer (b. 1938)
- 1 April – Vladimir Orloff, cellist (b. 1928)
- 16 April – Valentin Plătăreanu, actor (b. 1936)
- 20 May – Remus Opriș, politician (b. 1958)
- 25 May – Nicolae Pescaru, football player (b. 1943)
- 7 June – Elisabeta Ionescu, handball player (b. 1953)
- 18 June – Pavel Chihaia, essayist, novelist and art historian (b. 1922)
- 20 June – Dumitru Focșeneanu, bobsledder (b. 1935)
- 29 July – Traian Ivănescu, football player and coach (b. 1933)
- 30 July – Marcian Bleahu, geologist, speleologist, geographer, alpinist, explorer, writer and politician (b. 1924)
- 1 August – Puși Dinulescu, playwright, director, writer, poet and polemicist (b. 1942)
- 7 September – Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)
- 15 October – Tamara Buciuceanu, actress (b. 1929)
- 29 October – Mihai Constantinescu, singer (b. 1946)
- 2 November – Leo Iorga, musician (b. 1964)
- 3 November – Sorin Frunzăverde, politician (b. 1960)
References
- "EU elections: Opposition scores massive victory over ruling coalition in Romania". Romania-Insider.com. 27 May 2019.
- Bogdan Neagu (27 May 2019). "Romanian ruling social-democrats suffer heavy loss". EurActiv.
- Madalin Necsutu (27 May 2019). "Romania Justice Referendum Deals Blow to Ruling Party". Balkan Insight.
- Luiza Ilie, Radu-Sorin Marinas (27 May 2019). "Romania's ruling party chief jailed for corruption". Reuters.
- Anca Alexe (29 May 2019). "PSD MP Marcel Ciolacu elected speaker of Romanian Parliament's Chamber of Deputies". Business Review.
- Andra Timu, Irina Vilcu (26 August 2019). "Romania Ruling Coalition Collapses in Bust-Up Over Presidency". Bloomberg.
- Simona Iacob (2 September 2019). "Calin Popescu-Tariceanu resigns from position of Senate President". AGERPRES.
- "Romania's former foreign affairs minister voted Senate president". Romania-Insider.com. 11 September 2019.
- "Dancila's Romanian government falls in no-confidence vote". BBC News. 10 October 2019.
- Valerie Hopkins (4 November 2019). "Ludovic Orban installed as Romania's prime minister". Financial Times.
- "Romania's Parliament votes new Government led by liberal PM Ludovic Orban". Romania-Insider.com. 4 November 2019.
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