Calin Popescu-Tariceanu

President Klaus Iohannis announced on Tuesday he will call consultations with the parliamentary parties with a view to forging an agreement meant to provide 2 percent of gross domestic product to defence starting 2017 and keeping such goal for at least ten years.

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The historic year 1989 is the year in which the peoples in Central and Eastern Europe took the step towards the free world, Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu told a solemn sitting of the Parliament on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the December 1989 Revolution that toppled the communist rule.

The Senate's Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Sunday morning, when exiting the polling station where he cast the ballot, that he wants "another Romania", a Romania that "looks to the future".

"My today's vote aims to permanently close a sad page in Romania's history and avoid the risk for this to continue in one form or another.

Social Democrat Party (PSD) Executive Chair Liviu Dragnea declared that the leaders of his party met Reformist Liberal Party (PLR) head Calin Popescu-Tariceanu to guarantee the continuation of the political, economic and social goals of the Social Liberal Union (USL) project.

PSD-UNPR-PC presidential front-runner Victor Ponta said on Wednesday evening that he is ready to be the President Romania needs.

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president with the support of his Social Democrat Party, of the National Union for Romania's Progress and of the Conservative Party, will inaugurate a bridge across the Danube - Black Sea Canal on Thursday.

Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader, prime minister and presidential candidate Victor Ponta says there's a 'very clear' resolution to restore the Social Liberal Union of PSD with the Liberals.

This decision justifies the nomination of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu as the future prime minister, Ponta said in Suceava (northeastern Romania) on Friday.

Statistics published on Thursday on the website of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) show Christian Liberal Alliance candidate Klaus Iohannis got 46.17 percent (73,912 votes) and incumbent Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta 15.90 percent (25,466 votes) of votes cast abroad in the first round of the presidential ballot.

The Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu says the vote by correspondence will make it easier for the Romanians living abroad to exercise this constitutional right and such a voting system will be probably used in the future.

The Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu sees himself as the most qualified person to become the prime minister of Romania out of those cited by incumbent PM Victor Ponta as his possible successors in the event that he won the Nov. 16 presidential runoff.