2019 in Romania

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

January

• 1 January – Start of the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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. The senior ruling party – PSD – gets a score of under 24%, down from 37.6% in the previous election. Their coalition partners from ALDE drop under the 5% threshold.
• The referendum against judicial amnesties reaches the required turnout to be valid.
• 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.
• 29 May – The Chamber of Deputies plenary elects Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu as its President.

June

• 30 June – End of the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

August

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

September

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

October

• 10 October – Dăncilă Cabinet collapses after losing a no-confidence vote.

November

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

Deaths

January

• 5 January – Emil Brumaru, writer and poet (b. 1938)
• 8 January – Cornel Trăilescu, conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 20 January – Petre Milincovici, 82, Romanian Olympic rower (1960).
• 27 January – Henry Chapier, 85, Romanian-born French journalist and film critic.

February

• 3 February – Stephen Negoesco, 93, Romanian-American Hall of Fame soccer player and manager.

March

• 5 March – Doru Popovici, composer, musicologist, writer and journalist.
• 10 March – Gheorghe Naghi, director and actor (Telegrame).
• 18 March – Egon Balas, 96, Romanian mathematician.
• 20 March – Leonard Wolf, 96, Romanian-born American poet.
• 23 March – Tudor Caranfil, 87, Romanian film critic, TV producer and film historian.
• 24 March – Cornelia Tăutu, composer (b. 1938)

April

• 1 April – Vladimir Orloff, 90, Romanian-Canadian cellist and music teacher.
• 8 April – Josine Ianco-Starrels, 92, Romanian-born American art curator.
• 16 April – Valentin Plătăreanu, 82, Romanian actor and director.

May

• 20 May – Remus Opriș, 60, Romanian politician, MP (1992–2000).
• 25 May – Nicolae Pescaru, 76, Romanian footballer (Brașov, national team).

June

• 7 June – Elisabeta Ionescu, 66, Romanian Olympic handball player, world championship silver medalist (1973).
• 18 June – Pavel Chihaia, 97, Romanian novelist and political dissident.
• 20 June –
• Dumitru Focșeneanu, 83, Romanian Olympic bobsledder (1972), stroke.
• Alexa Mezincescu, 82, Romanian ballet dancer and choreographer.

July

• 4 July – Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
• 25 July – Mihai Mandache, 58, Romanian Olympic swimmer (1980).
• 29 July – Traian Ivănescu, 86, Romanian football player and coach.
• 30 July – Marcian Bleahu, 95, Romanian geologist, writer and politician, Senator (1990–1992, 1996–2000) and Minister of the Environment (1991–1992).

August

• 1 August – Puși Dinulescu, 76, Romanian playwright and film director, heart attack.
• 3 August – Marcel Toader, 56, Romanian rugby union player (Steaua București, national team), heart attack.
• 8 August – Marius Todericiu, 49, Romanian football player (Brașov, Weismain) and manager (Darmstadt 98), suicide.
• 12 August – Florin Halagian, 80, Romanian football player (Dinamo București) and manager (Argeș Pitești, national team).

September

• 7 September – Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)
• 18 September – Alexandru Darie, 60, Romanian theater director.

October

• 15 October – Tamara Buciuceanu, 90, Romanian actress (Silent Wedding, Everybody in Our Family), heart disease.
• 29 October – , singer

November

• 2 November – Leo Iorga, 54, Romanian rock singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
• 3 November – Sorin Frunzăverde, 59, Romanian politician, MP (2007–2009) and Minister of National Defence (2000, 2006–2007), kidney disease.
• 5 November – Larion Serghei, 67, Romanian sprint canoer, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).
• 16 November – Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz, 69, Romanian politician, MP (1990–2016).
• 20 November – Dorel Zugrăvescu, 88, Romanian geophysicist.

December

• 23 December – Georgeta Snegur, 82, Romanian-born Moldovan socialite, First Lady (1990–1997).

See also

• 2019 in the European Union
• Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

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