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Klaus Werner Iohannis ( born 13 June 1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former teacher who served as the sixth president of Romania from 2014 to 2025. He became the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014, after previously serving as the leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) between 2002 and 2013. Prior to entering national politics, he was a physics teacher at the Samuel von Brukenthal National College in his native Sibiu.
He was initially elected in 2014 and then subsequently re-elected by a landslide in 2019. His late presidency (his second term) has been marked by democratic backsliding as well as a slight shift towards illiberalism and a more authoritarian style of government, especially after the 2021 political crisis and the formation of the National Coalition for Romania (CNR).
It has faced allegations of suppression of freedom of speech and also suppression of press freedom. Furthermore,
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Klaus Iohannis
President of Romania from 2014 to 2025
Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian:[ˈkla.usjoˈhanis]; German:[ˈklaʊsjoˈhanɪs]; born 13 June 1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former teacher who served as the sixth president of Romania from 2014 to 2025.[1] Prior to entering national politics, Iohannis was a physics teacher at the Samuel von Brukenthal National College in his native Sibiu.
Iohannis was first elected the mayor of the Romanian town of Sibiu in 2000, on behalf of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR). Although the Transylvanian Saxon population of Sibiu had declined to a tiny minority by the early 2000s, he won a surprise victory and was re-elected by landslides in 2004, 2008, and 2012. He is credited with turning his home town into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations. Sibiu was named the European Capital of Culture in 2007 alongside Luxembourg City.
In October 2009, four of the five poli
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Victor Ponta
Prime Minister of Romania from 2012 to 2015
Victor Viorel Ponta (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈviktorˈponta]; born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 2012 to 2015. He was president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 2010 to 2015, and joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County from 2004 to 2020, and was returned to a Dâmbovița County seat in 2024.
In the Emil Boc cabinet, Ponta was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009. He began his time as head of government with a victory for his alliance in local elections, as well as criticism from civil kultur after several prominent Băsescu-associated figures in government-funded culture and history institutes were removed or resigned from their posts. Eventually, a poli