Prime Ministers of Romania

A draft law on amnesty and pardons that would have helped jailed Romanian politicians was overwhelmingly rejected by the country's Parliament on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on the opening of the Government meeting on Tuesday he will nominate Romania's ambassador to the EU Mihnea Motoc as the new minister of foreign affairs.

Social Democrat Party (PSD) executive chairman Liviu Dragnea has stated on Monday that the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) continues to support the current governing coalition, fact confirmed by telephone by the chairman of the Union, Hunor Kelemen, to Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

President in office of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has congratulated Klaus Iohannis on being elected Romania's President in a November 16 runoff election.

In a press release issued on Monday he said that on behalf of the European Union he congratulates Mr Klaus Iohannis on being elected to the office of Romania's President.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Monday said that he was determined to remain in the Prime Minister office.

"I am determined to remain in the Prime Minister office. (...) I plan to continue the act of governance, to adopt the budget as soon as possible, in the coming period," Victor Ponta told a press conference at the Palace of Parliament.

Romania's president-elect Klaus Iohannis, still the chair of the opposition National Liberal Party, vowed to continue Romania's partnership as the head of state, and prove the country is a serious, credible and long-term partner.

Romania's President-elect Klaus Iohannis has argued that the country is in need of deep change.

Speaking at his first press conference after Sunday's presidential runoff, Iohannis said that voters had made it clear that the country was in need of thorough change.

He claimed that the election results were a signal to him and to the political class.

The National Liberal Party (PNL) chair, Klaus Iohannis has asked incumbent president Traian Basescu on Monday to withdraw the ambassadors from the countries where the Romanian nationals were "humiliated" with reference to the way the voting process abroad took place.

Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis got 54.50 percent of the vote in the second round of the presidential elections on Sunday, while Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party alliance polled 45.49 percent, according to the data released by the Central Electoral Bureau (BE

Liberal head Klaus Iohannis dedicated his win in Sunday's presidential elections to the Romanians and stressed Romania 'has built up strength to get well'.