People's Movement Party

Businessman Dinu Patriciu has died in London, where he was receiving medical care after the liver transplant procedure he underwent a year and a half ago in Milan, Italy. Medical sources have stated for AGERPRES that most probably, "his death came as a consequence of post-transplant complications".

The National College of the People's Movement Party will gather on Tuesday at the Parliament Palace to decide on its presidential candidate to run in the November 2014 elections.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta would get 46 percent of Romanians' votes in the first round of the presidential elections, while Klaus Iohannis would have 24 percent, the most recent CSCI poll remitted on Monday to AGERPRES shows.

More than 85 per cent of the voters of the National Liberal Party (PNL) believe the merger of PNL and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) is a good idea, compared with over 70 per cent of PDL's voters, while 60 per cent of the voters of the ruling Alliance of the Social Democratic Party -National Union for Romania's Progress- Conservative Party (PSD-UNPR-PC) believe the merger is a

The Prime Minister and national leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta on Wednesday evening stated that the new political entity to result form a merger of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) will have Traian Basescu as its new leader, after this autumn's presidential election.

The People's Movement Party (PMP) will hold its first congress on June 7, PMP Vice President Eugen Tomac announced on Friday.

PMP is open to the idea of setting up a right-wing coalition, on certain conditions, but it does not take a merger with any party into consideration, Eugen Tomac said after the meeting of the party's National College.

The Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has handed out, on Thursday, the mandates proving their election as MEPs following the vote on May 25.

The PSD-UNPR-PC alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC) won 16 seats in the European Parliament in the May 25 European elections in Romania, spokesman for the Central Electoral Bureau Marian Muhulet announced on Thursday.

The Democratic Liberal Party (PDL, in opposition) chairman Vasile Blaga said on Wednesday a merger of his party with the National Liberals (PNL, in opposition) could be possible before the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2016, provided the analyses to be made show the two parties can garner more votes than if running separately.

The PSD-UNPR-PC electoral alliance of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and Conservative Party (PC) has got 37.60 percent of the votes in Sunday's European Parliament elections, the National Liberal Party (PNL) 15 percent and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) 12.23 percent, according to partial data released by the Central Electoral Bur