Liberal Party

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for President, wishes Romanians have the opportunity to vote for a candidate who wants a plan for Romania, not a position for themselves; in a broadcast of Antena 3 television on Monday night, he voiced his impression that his opponent Klaus Iohannis wants a position.

The campaign for the first round presidential elections due to be held on November 2 in Romania began Friday.

A number of polls suggest Prime Minister Victor Ponta, also a leader of the Social Democrat Party, is most likely to win, with his main rival, ethnic German Klaus Iohannis, who heads the Christian Liberal party, trailing behind.

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) will lead a tolerant campaign, its head Lyutvi Mestan announced as the party's campaign kicked off on Sunday.

Boyko Borisov, leader of center-right party GERB and former Prime Minister, has argued that Bulgaria’s next government should have at least 10 Muslim Deputy Ministers.

It is not a secret that President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has in recent years preferred to more powerfully rule an increasingly polarized and divided country than to more mildly rule a more peaceful country. Despite an unusually soft-toned victory speech on Sunday, Aug. 10, (more commonly known as his usual “balcony speech”) Mr.

Center-right party GERB and liberal party DPS have agreed to hold an extraordinary sitting of Parliament on July 29 at 3 pm.

The proposal for the extraordinary sitting came from Yordan Tsonev from DPS (Movement for Rights and Freedoms).

The Sofia Appellate Court refused to alleviate the remand measure of house arrest of Oktay Enimehmedov, the man who attacked the honorary lifetime Chairman of DPS Ahmed Dogan.

On January 19, 2013, Enimehmedov pointed a gun at Ahmed Dogan while he was delivering his resignation speech at a party conference.

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) supports a platform of Romanian Liberals gathered in the initiative group recently launched by Senate speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, a former prime minister who was once head of the National Liberal Party (PNL), ALDE president Sir Graham Watson announced on Thursday.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta considers that outgoing National Liberal Party (PNL) Chairman Crin Antonescu has "killed off USL [Social Liberal Union]".

Ponta added that the Social Democrats are waiting to see the result of the PNL congress, keeping their availability for the restoring of USL in case the Liberals want this as well.

Romania’s center-left governing coalition has won the European parliamentary elections, with around 37.5 per cent of the vote, according to first preliminary results announced on Monday by the Central Electoral Bureau.

The governing alliance is comprised of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and two minor parties. Together they should get around 16 seats in the European Parliament.