2019 in Romania

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Events of 2019 in Romania.

Incumbents[]

• President: Klaus Iohannis
• Prime Minister: Viorica Dăncilă (until 4 November) · Ludovic Orban (since 4 November)
• President of the Senate: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (until 2 September) · Teodor Meleșcanu (since 10 September)
• President of the Chamber of Deputies: Liviu Dragnea (until 27 May) · Marcel Ciolacu (since 29 May)

Events[]

May[]

• 26 May
  • 2019 European Parliament election in Romania: The biggest opposition party – PNL – wins the vote in the country while the new opposition alliance made of USR and PLUS wins the vote in the big cities and diaspora.^[1] The senior ruling party – PSD – gets a score of under 24%, down from 37.6% in the previous election.^[2] Their coalition partners from ALDE drop under the 5% threshold.^[1]
  • The referendum against judicial amnesties reaches the required turnout to be valid.^[3]
• 27 May – The High Court of Cassation and Justice upholds the ruling sentencing Liviu Dragnea, leader of the governing PSD, for three and a half years in jail for of his involvement in the hiring of two fictitious workers in his electoral stronghold.^[4]
• 29 May – The Chamber of Deputies plenary elects Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu as its President.^[5]

August[]

• 26 August – ALDE decides to leave the ruling coalition and join the opposition.^[6] As a result, three of its four ministers resign.

September[]

• 2 September – Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu resigns as President of the Senate.^[7]
• 10 September – Teodor Meleșcanu is elected President of the Senate with 73 votes against PNL candidate Alina Gorghiu.^[8]

October[]

• 10 October – Dăncilă Cabinet collapses after losing a no-confidence vote.^[9]

November[]

• 4 November – PNL leader Ludovic Orban is voted in as the new Prime Minister of Romania.^[10] PSD and PRO Romania officially boycott the vote.^[11]

Deaths[]

• 5 January – Emil Brumaru, writer and poet (b. 1938)
• 8 January – Cornel Trăilescu, conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 5 March – Doru Popovici, composer, musicologist, writer and journalist (b. 1932)
• 10 March – Gheorghe Naghi, director and actor (b. 1932)
• 18 March – Egon Balas, mathematician and economist (b. 1922)
• 23 March – Tudor Caranfil, film critic, TV producer and film historian (b. 1931)
• 24 March – Cornelia Tăutu, composer (b. 1938)
• 1 April – Vladimir Orloff, cellist (b. 1928)
• 16 April – Valentin Plătăreanu, actor (b. 1936)
• 20 May – Remus Opriș, politician (b. 1958)
• 25 May – Nicolae Pescaru, football player (b. 1943)
• 7 June – Elisabeta Ionescu, handball player (b. 1953)
• 18 June – Pavel Chihaia, essayist, novelist and art historian (b. 1922)
• 20 June – Dumitru Focșeneanu, bobsledder (b. 1935)
• 29 July – Traian Ivănescu, football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 30 July – Marcian Bleahu, geologist, speleologist, geographer, alpinist, explorer, writer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1 August – Puși Dinulescu, playwright, director, writer, poet and polemicist (b. 1942)
• 7 September – Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)
• 15 October – Tamara Buciuceanu, actress (b. 1929)
• 29 October – Mihai Constantinescu, singer (b. 1946)
• 2 November – Leo Iorga, musician (b. 1964)
• 3 November – Sorin Frunzăverde, politician (b. 1960)

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