2019_in_Romania
2019 in Romania
List of events
Events of 2019 in Romania.
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- 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)
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
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]
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January
Main article: Deaths in January 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in February 2019
- 3 February – Stephen Negoesco, 93, Romanian-American Hall of Fame soccer player and manager.[17]
March
Main article: Deaths in March 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in April 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in May 2019
- 20 May – Remus Opriș, 60, Romanian politician, MP (1992–2000).[27]
- 25 May – Nicolae Pescaru, 76, Romanian footballer (Brașov, national team).[28]
June
Main article: Deaths in June 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in July 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in August 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in September 2019
- 7 September – Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)[41]
- 18 September – Alexandru Darie, 60, Romanian theater director.[42]
October
Main article: Deaths in October 2019
- 15 October – Tamara Buciuceanu, 90, Romanian actress (Silent Wedding, Everybody in Our Family), heart disease.[43]
- 29 October – Mihai Constantinescu [ro], singer[44]
November
Main article: Deaths in November 2019
- 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
Main article: Deaths in December 2019
- 23 December – Georgeta Snegur, 82, Romanian-born Moldovan socialite, First Lady (1990–1997).[50]
Wikinews has related news:
- "Klaus Iohannis wins Romanian presidential election". The Guardian. 16 November 2014. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- Stan, Maria (31 December 2018). "România preia de la 1 ianuarie 2019 președinția Consiliului UE. Care sunt principalele atribuții". Mediafax (in Romanian).
- "EU elections: Opposition scores massive victory over ruling coalition in Romania". Romania-Insider.com. 27 May 2019.
- Bogdan Neagu (27 May 2019). "Romanian ruling social-democrats suffer heavy loss". EurActiv.
- Mădălin Necșuțu (27 May 2019). "Romania Justice Referendum Deals Blow to Ruling Party". Balkan Insight.
- Luiza Ilie, Radu-Sorin Marinas (27 May 2019). "Romania's ruling party chief jailed for corruption". Reuters.
- Anca Alexe (29 May 2019). "PSD MP Marcel Ciolacu elected speaker of Romanian Parliament's Chamber of Deputies". Business Review.
- Andra Timu, Irina Vilcu (26 August 2019). "Romania Ruling Coalition Collapses in Bust-Up Over Presidency". Bloomberg.
- Simona Iacob (2 September 2019). "Calin Popescu-Tariceanu resigns from position of Senate President". AGERPRES.
- "Romania's former foreign affairs minister voted Senate president". Romania-Insider.com. 11 September 2019.
- "Dancila's Romanian government falls in no-confidence vote". BBC News. 10 October 2019.
- Valerie Hopkins (4 November 2019). "Ludovic Orban installed as Romania's prime minister". Financial Times.
- "Romania's Parliament votes new Government led by liberal PM Ludovic Orban". Romania-Insider.com. 4 November 2019.
- Petru Milinkovics beigesetzt (in German)
- A murit Tudor Caranfil (in Romanian)
- Andreescu, Crişan (28 March 2019). "Compozitoarea Cornelia Tăutu a murit. De ce era cunoscută". DCNews. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- Remus Opriș, fost lider al PNȚCD, a murit luni (in Romanian)
- Rămas Bun, Elisabeta Ionescu (in Romanian)
- Selma Jeanne Cohen; Dance Perspectives Foundation (1998). International encyclopedia of dance: a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. Oxford University Press. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-19-512309-8.
- Traian Ivănescu s-a stins din viață la 86 de ani (in Romanian)
- Academicianul Marcian Bleahu a încetat din viață (in Romanian)
- A murit Marcel Toader (in Romanian)
- Doliu în fotbalul românesc! A murit Florin Halagian! (in Romanian)
- http://www.umfiasi.ro/umf/ie2/navigation.jsp?node=1330, Universitatea De Medicina Si Farmacie, Conducatori de doctorat. Retrieved March 8, 2011.
- A murit marea actriţă Tamara Buciuceanu Botez (in Romanian)
- "Romanian singer Mihai Constantinescu dies after five-month coma". Romania-Insider.com. City Compass Media. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- Dr. Dorel Gheorghe Zugrăvescu (in Romanian)
- A murit Georgeta Snegur, cea dintâi Prima Doamnă a Republicii Moldova Archived 1 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine (in Romanian)
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