Presidents of Romania

Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) candidate for Romania's president Klaus Iohannis is convinced that Prime Minister Victor Ponta will lose his mandate right after this November elections.

There will be no duties and taxes raise in 2015, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president, declared on Monday at the Parliament Palace.

The Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) took note of the decision issued by the High Court of Cassation and Justice to reject the request from the National Integrity Agency (ANI) regarding an earlier court term for the case of Klaus Iohannis, and noticed that despite the pressure exerted through public statements both by Prime Minister Victor Ponta, President Traian Basescu and the S

Prime minister's counsellor Cristian Socol says presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis of the Christian Liberal Alliance is 'acting dangerously' when mentioning the possibility of progressive income tax being reintroduced and of taxes being raised in 2015.

Presidential candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) Klaus Iohannis told TVR1 public broadcaster on Sunday evening that the President is the main political yardstick of the nation and he should also be a model for public conduct.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) - the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) - the Conservative Party (PC) candidate in presidential elections, said late on Sunday that the objective of his campaign for the first round is getting at least 37.5 pct of votes, that is the score recorded in the European Parliament elections.

Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, who runs for President as independent with the support of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), told a press conference in Tulcea on Friday that in maximum one year's time he would manage to persuade all political forces of Romania to agree to a national project, 'Romania, Europe's Seventh Power,' if elected president.

President Traian Basescu has stated on Saturday, at the Christian Democratic National Peasant Party (PNTCD) Extraordinary Congress that is taking place in Poiana Brasov, that the Revolution of 1989 was confiscated by the successors of former communists, that are, in his opinion, extremely "toxic" to the future of Romania, because "the world tends give them credit due to their yout

Socialist Alternative Party (PAS) Chair Constantin Rotaru filed his presidential candidacy at the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) on Tuesday.

Businessman Dinu Patriciu has died in London, where he was receiving medical care after the liver transplant procedure he underwent a year and a half ago in Milan, Italy. Medical sources have stated for AGERPRES that most probably, "his death came as a consequence of post-transplant complications".