# 2019 in Romania

Events of 2019 in Romania.

## Incumbents

* President: Klaus Iohannis
* 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.

### 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. The senior ruling party – PSD – gets a score of under 24%, down from 37.6% in the previous election. Their coalition partners from ALDE drop under the 5% threshold.
** The referendum against judicial amnesties reaches the required turnout to be valid.
* 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.
* 29 May – The Chamber of Deputies plenary elects Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu as its President.

### June

* 30 June – End of the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

### August

* 26 August – ALDE decides to leave the ruling coalition and join the opposition. As a result, three of its four ministers resign.

### September

* 2 September – Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu resigns as President of the Senate.
* 10 September – Teodor Meleșcanu is elected President of the Senate with 73 votes against PNL candidate Alina Gorghiu.

### October

* 10 October – Dăncilă Cabinet collapses after losing a no-confidence vote.

### November

* 4 November – PNL leader Ludovic Orban is voted in as the new Prime Minister of Romania. PSD and PRO Romania officially boycott the vote.

## Deaths
### January

* 5 January – Emil Brumaru, writer and poet (b. 1938)
* 8 January – Cornel Trăilescu, conductor and composer (b. 1926)
* 20 January – Petre Milincovici, 82, Romanian Olympic rower (1960).
* 27 January – Henry Chapier, 85, Romanian-born French journalist and film critic.

### February

* 3 February – Stephen Negoesco, 93, Romanian-American Hall of Fame soccer player and manager.

### March

* 5 March – Doru Popovici, composer, musicologist, writer and journalist.
* 10 March – Gheorghe Naghi, director and actor (Telegrame).
* 18 March – Egon Balas, 96, Romanian mathematician.
* 20 March – Leonard Wolf, 96, Romanian-born American poet.
* 23 March – Tudor Caranfil, 87, Romanian film critic, TV producer and film historian.
* 24 March – Cornelia Tăutu, composer (b. 1938)

### April

* 1 April – Vladimir Orloff, 90, Romanian-Canadian cellist and music teacher.
* 8 April – Josine Ianco-Starrels, 92, Romanian-born American art curator.
* 16 April – Valentin Plătăreanu, 82, Romanian actor and director.

### May

* 20 May – Remus Opriș, 60, Romanian politician, MP (1992–2000).
* 25 May – Nicolae Pescaru, 76, Romanian footballer (Brașov, national team).

### June

* 7 June – Elisabeta Ionescu, 66, Romanian Olympic handball player, world championship silver medalist (1973).
* 18 June – Pavel Chihaia, 97, Romanian novelist and political dissident.
* 20 June –
** Dumitru Focșeneanu, 83, Romanian Olympic bobsledder (1972), stroke.
** Alexa Mezincescu, 82, Romanian ballet dancer and choreographer.

### July

* 4 July – Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
* 25 July – Mihai Mandache, 58, Romanian Olympic swimmer (1980).
* 29 July – Traian Ivănescu, 86, Romanian football player and coach.
* 30 July – Marcian Bleahu, 95, Romanian geologist, writer and politician, Senator (1990–1992, 1996–2000) and Minister of the Environment (1991–1992).

### August

* 1 August – Puși Dinulescu, 76, Romanian playwright and film director, heart attack.
* 3 August – Marcel Toader, 56, Romanian rugby union player (Steaua București, national team), heart attack.
* 8 August – Marius Todericiu, 49, Romanian football player (Brașov, Weismain) and manager (Darmstadt 98), suicide.
* 12 August – Florin Halagian, 80, Romanian football player (Dinamo București) and manager (Argeș Pitești, national team).

### September

* 7 September – Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)
* 18 September – Alexandru Darie, 60, Romanian theater director.

### October

* 15 October – Tamara Buciuceanu, 90, Romanian actress (Silent Wedding, Everybody in Our Family), heart disease.
* 29 October – Mihai Constantinescu [ro], singer

### November

* 2 November – Leo Iorga, 54, Romanian rock singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
* 3 November – Sorin Frunzăverde, 59, Romanian politician, MP (2007–2009) and Minister of National Defence (2000, 2006–2007), kidney disease.
* 5 November – Larion Serghei, 67, Romanian sprint canoer, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).
* 16 November – Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz, 69, Romanian politician, MP (1990–2016).
* 20 November – Dorel Zugrăvescu, 88, Romanian geophysicist.

### December

* 23 December – Georgeta Snegur, 82, Romanian-born Moldovan socialite, First Lady (1990–1997).