Calin Popescu Tariceanu

Senate President Calin Popescu Tariceanu on Tuesday said that Parliament "starts to share sovereignty regarding its law-making mission" with the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR).

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President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday congratulated Simona Maya Teodoroiu at ceremony in which she was sworn in the office of judge with the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) and told the Court representatives that they represent "a pillar of democracy."

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President Klaus Iohannis will meet, on Monday, at 10.00 EET, in the Blue Room of the Cotroceni Palace, with Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu and Chamber of Deputies Speaker Valeriu Zgonea, the schedule of the President, as posted on the Presidential Administration website, shows.

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UDMR ethnic Hungarian party, a junior partner in Romania's government coalition, has decided to leave it following the defeat of Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta in presidential elections.

Yet, Ponta's centre-left coalition will stay in power as its remaining members - the Social Democrats and two junior partners - together control 332 of the 579 seats in Parliament.

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.

The Senate's Speaker Calin Popescu-Tariceanu said on Sunday morning, when exiting the polling station where he cast the ballot, that he wants "another Romania", a Romania that "looks to the future".

"My today's vote aims to permanently close a sad page in Romania's history and avoid the risk for this to continue in one form or another.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday evening said that if he were to be elected president in this week's presidential election, he would fully support a government made by the new Social Liberal Union (USL) [that would be an alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR)- e.n.] and headed by Calin Popescu Tariceanu.

The candidate for Romania's president of the alliance made up of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) - the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) - the Conservative Party (PC), Victor Ponta, would win the presidential ballot runoff with 54 per cent, while his opponent from the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL), Klaus Iohannis, would get 46 per cent of the votes, according to a

Senate President Calin Popescu Tariceanu, Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) Chairman, told a press conference in Oradea on Friday that the main danger after the elections was that of seeing Basescu's regime perpetuated or revived in a different shape, through the person of Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) representative Klaus Iohannis.

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) - the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) - the Conservative Party (PC) Alliance, Victor Ponta, would win the presidential elections with a 55 per cent score, defeating his opponent, Liberal Klaus Iohannis, who would get 45 per cent in the presidential runoff, shows a CSCI poll conducted on November 5 and sent to AGERPRES