Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

Monica Macovei, an independent candidate in the November presidential election, declared that if one of her opponents Victor Ponta, Klaus Iohannis, Calin Popescu Tariceanu or Elena Udrea wins the presidency, the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) "no longer exists".

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) believes that the secret services chiefs should meet a consensus among political parties for the change of the head of state not to lead to the change of the management of these services as well.

Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, an independent candidate in the presidential elections, has stated, on Friday, that his country project is based on three essential pillars: profound political and administrative reform, promoting national education and culture, and the demographic perspectives of society.

Nine former Romanian ministers face an investigation for corruption and money laundering in a case involving the lease of Microsoft IT licenses for schools.

Chairman of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) Calin Popescu-Tariceanu says he will go hie way untroubled, even if the question of Klaus Iohannis withdrawal from the presidential race were to arise and the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) were to reorient towards his candidacy.

The chairman of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, will launch his bid for this November's presidential election on Friday at an event to be held at the Parliament Palace.

Tariceanu's launch in the race for the presidential office will start at 16:00hrs, EEST, at Parliament Palace.

Fourteen candidates have enrolled at the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) to enter the race for Romania's President.

President Traian Basescu has written, on Monday, to the speakers of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu and Valeriu Zgonea, asking them to take notice of Teodor Melescanu's resignation as director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE).

Senate Chairman Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, who heads the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) on Monday filed his candidacy for president in this November's polls at the Central Election Bureau.

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Monday announced that he took the first steps into suspending from office the incumbent head of state.

'We began efforts to present the leaders of the parliamentary groups of the Senate and the Deputies' Chamber the initiative on suspending Romania's President,' Tariceanu told a press conference at the Palace of Parliament.