2007 in Romania

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Events from the year 2007 in Romania.

Incumbents[]

• President: Traian Băsescu
• Prime Minister: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

Events[]

• 1 January – Romania becomes a member state of the European Union, together with neighbouring Bulgaria.^[1]
• 5 April – The second Tăriceanu cabinet was sworn in, as a PNL-UDMR minority government (unlike in the preceding cabinet, the PD and the PC are not part of the coalition).
• 19 April – President Traian Băsescu was suspended by the Romanian Parliament, of which members accused him of violating the Constitution of Romania even though the Constitutional Court didn't find any evidence of such violation.^[2] With this suspension, Băsescu became the first president of Romania in its history since 1989 that was suspended at least once.
• 19 May – 2007 Romanian presidential impeachment referendum: 75.06% of the referendum voters voted for Traian Băsescu to remain President, while the other 24.94% voted for the impeachment.
• 30 August – The case of what could become among the most covered of the kind in the history of Romanian mass media, the disappearance of Elodia Ghinescu, begins.^[3]
• 14 September – 2 dead and 15 injured after a explosion occurred in a block of flats in Zalău, Sălaj County.^[4]
• 25 November:
  • 2007 European Parliament election in Romania: The Democratic Party wins the first election for the European Parliament in Romania with 28.81% of all votes (13 seats). The Social Democratic Party came in second with 23.11% (10 seats), followed by the PNL (13.44%, 6 seats), PLD (7.78%, 3 seats) and UDMR (5.52%, 2 seats).
  • 2007 Romanian electoral system referendum: 81.36% of voters of the referendum voted "for" the changing of the Romanian electoral system to a two-round system. The voter turnout was 26.51%, causing the referendum to be invalid.
• 15 December – The Democratic Party (PD) and the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) parties have merged to form the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).^[5]

Deaths[]

• 9 January – Ion Dincă, communist politician and former Mayor of Bucharest (b. 1928)
• 17 April – Gil Dobrică, singer (b. 1946)
• 26 April – Florea Dumitrache, footballer (b. 1948)
• 8 June – Adrian Pintea, actor (b. 1954)
• 26 October – Nicolae Dobrin, footballer (b. 1947)
• 8 December – Ioan Fiscuteanu, theater and film actor (b. 1937)

See also[]

• 2007 in the European Union
• Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
• Romania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to 2007 in Romania at Wikimedia Commons
• Romania at Wikinews