mep elections

Romanian MEP Cristian Preda announced on Tuesday that he joined the party of former technocrat Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos, PLUS, but will not run for a new MEP term.

The leader of Romania’s Liberal Party (PNL), Ludovic Orban, summoned a meeting of the party’s executive bureau for Sunday evening, to present and discuss the results of the last national poll regarding the upcoming MEP elections, party sources told MEDIAFAX.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis challenged at the Constitutional Court on Thursday a bill which prohibits the organization of a referendum at the same time with MEP elections.

Romania’s Liberal Party (PNL) will hold a meeting of its National Political Bureau on January 28 to discuss its lists for the upcoming MEP elections, party chairman Ludovic Orban announced on Tuesday.

Romanians are among the most worried EU citizens when it comes to electoral fraud and want a different profile for candidates at the upcoming MEP elections, according to a recent eurobarometer.

The chairman of Romanian opposition party USR, Dan Barna, said on Monday that his group is looking into running on common lists with former Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos’ MRI party, a move which he stated was expected by up to three quarters of their voters.