Prima pagină » English » Ruling Party Senator Joins Re-Established UNPR Group

Ruling Party Senator Joins Re-Established UNPR Group

Former Romanian Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea announced in a press conference on Tuesday that Senator Iustin Talpos, affiliated with the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), joined his re-established UNPR party and will hold the office of interim national deputy chairman.
Ruling Party Senator Joins Re-Established UNPR Group
Ionut Preda
05 mart. 2019, 15:28, English

The senator was elected on the lists of opposition party PMP at the 2016 parliamentary elections, but later left the party and joined the ruling PSD group after a brief stint as an independent.

The National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR), a former ruling coalition party during the Victor Ponta cabinets, was re-established as an independent entity last year following a failed merging process with PMP, which began several months before the 2016 elections. Oprea, who was previously the party’s leader before resigning in mid-2016, was re-elected as its chairman.