2019 in Romania
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- President: Klaus Iohannis[1]
- 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
January
- 1 January – Start of the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.[2]
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.[3] The senior ruling party – PSD – gets a score of under 24%, down from 37.6% in the previous election.[4] Their coalition partners from ALDE drop under the 5% threshold.[3]
- The referendum against judicial amnesties reaches the required turnout to be valid.[5]
- 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.[6]
- 29 May – The Chamber of Deputies plenary elects Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu as its President.[7]
June
- 30 June – End of the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.[2]
August
- 26 August – ALDE decides to leave the ruling coalition and join the opposition.[8] As a result, three of its four ministers resign.
September
- 2 September – Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu resigns as President of the Senate.[9]
- 10 September – Teodor Meleșcanu is elected President of the Senate with 73 votes against PNL candidate Alina Gorghiu.[10]
October
- 10 October – Dăncilă Cabinet collapses after losing a no-confidence vote.[11]
November
- 4 November – PNL leader Ludovic Orban is voted in as the new Prime Minister of Romania.[12] PSD and PRO Romania officially boycott the vote.[13]
Deaths
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January
- 5 January – Emil Brumaru, writer and poet (b. 1938)[14]
- 8 January – Cornel Trăilescu, conductor and composer (b. 1926)
- 20 January – Petre Milincovici, 82, Romanian Olympic rower (1960).[15]
- 27 January – Henry Chapier, 85, Romanian-born French journalist and film critic.[16]
February
- 3 February – Stephen Negoesco, 93, Romanian-American Hall of Fame soccer player and manager.[17]
March
- 5 March – Doru Popovici, composer, musicologist, writer and journalist.[18]
- 10 March – Gheorghe Naghi, director and actor (Telegrame).[19]
- 18 March – Egon Balas, 96, Romanian mathematician.[20]
- 20 March – Leonard Wolf, 96, Romanian-born American poet.[21]
- 23 March – Tudor Caranfil, 87, Romanian film critic, TV producer and film historian.[22]
- 24 March – Cornelia Tăutu, composer (b. 1938)[23]
April
- 1 April – Vladimir Orloff, 90, Romanian-Canadian cellist and music teacher.[24]
- 8 April – Josine Ianco-Starrels, 92, Romanian-born American art curator.[25]
- 16 April – Valentin Plătăreanu, 82, Romanian actor and director.[26]
May
- 20 May – Remus Opriș, 60, Romanian politician, MP (1992–2000).[27]
- 25 May – Nicolae Pescaru, 76, Romanian footballer (Brașov, national team).[28]
June
- 7 June – Elisabeta Ionescu, 66, Romanian Olympic handball player, world championship silver medalist (1973).[29]
- 18 June – Pavel Chihaia, 97, Romanian novelist and political dissident.[30]
- 20 June –
- Dumitru Focșeneanu, 83, Romanian Olympic bobsledder (1972), stroke.[31]
- Alexa Mezincescu, 82, Romanian ballet dancer and choreographer.[32]
July
- 4 July – Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.[33]
- 25 July – Mihai Mandache, 58, Romanian Olympic swimmer (1980).[34]
- 29 July – Traian Ivănescu, 86, Romanian football player and coach.[35]
- 30 July – Marcian Bleahu, 95, Romanian geologist, writer and politician, Senator (1990–1992, 1996–2000) and Minister of the Environment (1991–1992).[36]
August
- 1 August – Puși Dinulescu, 76, Romanian playwright and film director, heart attack.[37]
- 3 August – Marcel Toader, 56, Romanian rugby union player (Steaua București, national team), heart attack.[38]
- 8 August – Marius Todericiu, 49, Romanian football player (Brașov, Weismain) and manager (Darmstadt 98), suicide.[39]
- 12 August – Florin Halagian, 80, Romanian football player (Dinamo București) and manager (Argeș Pitești, national team).[40]
September
- 7 September – Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)[41]
- 18 September – Alexandru Darie, 60, Romanian theater director.[42]
October
- 15 October – Tamara Buciuceanu, 90, Romanian actress (Silent Wedding, Everybody in Our Family), heart disease.[43]
- 29 October – Mihai Constantinescu, singer[44]
November
- 2 November – Leo Iorga, 54, Romanian rock singer and guitarist, lung cancer.[45]
- 3 November – Sorin Frunzăverde, 59, Romanian politician, MP (2007–2009) and Minister of National Defence (2000, 2006–2007), kidney disease.[46]
- 5 November – Larion Serghei, 67, Romanian sprint canoer, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).[47]
- 16 November – Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz, 69, Romanian politician, MP (1990–2016).[48]
- 20 November – Dorel Zugrăvescu, 88, Romanian geophysicist.[49]
December
- 23 December – Georgeta Snegur, 82, Romanian-born Moldovan socialite, First Lady (1990–1997).[50]
