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Romania's parliament is to vote on Monday whether to appoint Hellvig as the director of the country's intelligence service, SRI, after he was nominated for the post by President Klaus Iohannis.

He is to replace former director George Maior, who resigned at the end of January.

The National Liberal Party, PNL, Romania's biggest opposition party, elected Alina Gorghiu as its new leader on Thursday, replacing Klaus Iohannis, who resigned as head of the PNL to become President of Romania.

She won 48 votes in an internal meeting of party leaders. Her main opponent, a former Transport Minister, Ludovic Orban, got 28 votes.

President Traian Basescu on Monday approved the nomination of Bogdan Aurescu for the post of Foreign Minister.

Aurescu, 41, is a career diplomat who has been working for the Romanian Foreign Ministry since 1996. His main achievement was coordinating Romania's team in the case against Ukraine on maritime delimitation in the Black Sea, which was concluded in 2009.

"I take full responsibility for what happened and will present my resignation in today's government meeting," Teodor Melescanu said on Tuesday.

Klaus Iohannis, 55, head of the National Liberal Party, PNL, won a surprise win in the Romanian presidential elections on Sunsday, taking 54.6 per cent of the vote, according to preliminary results released on Monday, after nine-tenths of the ballots were counted.

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Christian Liberal Alliance - ACL's (of the National Liberal Party - PNL and the Democratic Liberal Party) candidate in the November 16 presidential election, Klaus Iohannis, Wednesday sent a message to voters saying that there is no one controlling him from the shadows and advised citizens not to give all the power to a party that is "inauthentic" in his pretending to be Left-wing

Around 80 chickens, most of them dead, on Tuesday were thrown into the courtayard of opposition Christian-Liberal Alliance, ACL, in a sign that the electoral campaign in Romania is turning nasty, days before the run-off in the presidential elections.

The US embassy in Bucharest on Thursday slated an emergency ordinance that allows locally elected officials to change their party within a 45-day time limit.

The government will issue an emergency ordinance on Thursday that allows elected local officials opting within 45 days for another party, without thus losing the places they won, Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

PSD (Social Democratic Party) executive chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea, on Monday told a press conference in Baia Mare (northwestern Romania) that PNL (National Liberal Party) leader Klaus Iohannis is guilty of 'hypocrisy' in regards to the law that would allow local elected officials to change the party they want to be part of, given that he was elected to the Sibi