Romanian legislative election

The opposition National Liberal Party (PDL) and Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) groups in the Senate have merged, an announcement to this effect having been made when the group leaders presented the group leadership for the new ordinary session of the legislature at the plenary sitting of the upper house on Monday, in line with the Rules.

President Klaus Iohannis and the representatives of parliamentary parties have signed on Tuesday the national political agreement on increasing the financing of defence.

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The consultations between President Klaus Iohannis and the parliamentary parties on defence funding have kicked off at the presidential Cotroceni Palace early on Monday.

Photo credit: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES FLOW

Chairwoman of the National Liberal Party (PNL, currently the largest party in opposition) Alina Gorghiu on Friday stated that her plan is to continue the project initiated by the former leader of the party, President-elect Klaus Iohannis, to change the way politics is done in Romania.

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.

The incumbent president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Klaus Iohannis expressed his support for Alina Gorghiu to chair the party, on Wednesday night said first-deputy-president Teodor Atanasiu, at the end of an informal reunion of the party.

The new structure of the Government will be proposed to Parliament on December 15, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Monday.

The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, a junior member of the coalition headed by the Social Democratic Party, PSD, on Thursday left its supporters to choose who to support in the second round of the presidential elections, scheduled for November 16.

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National leader of the Reformist Liberal Party (PLR) Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, who finished third in the November 2 first round of the presidential election, on Tuesday announced having been mandated by his party colleagues to endorse Victor Ponta, the candidate of an alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservativ

The National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) on Tuesday signed a collaboration protocol with Greater Romania Party (PRM) on backing the candidacy of Prime Minister Victor Ponta in the presidential election runoff, UNPR's press office has announced.

The protocol was signed by UNPR Chairman Gabriel Oprea and PRM Chairman Corneliu Vadim Tudor. AGERPRES