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Events of 2019 in Romania.

Incumbents

• 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

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 [ro], 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]