PM Ponta

Romanian PM Victor Ponta announced his resignation on Wednesday in a press conference at Victoria Palace. "I have the obligation to determine the legitimate anger existing within the society. People want more and it would be a mistake to…

Social Democrat senator Ilie Sarbu, premier Victor Ponta’s father in law, got the Parliament’s green light for the vice-president position at the Court of Accounts on Wednesday. He received 290 votes in favor and 108 against. Sarbu is to…

PM Victor Ponta came at the National Anti-corruption Directorate on Thursday to be heard in the Turceni Rovinari file, in which he is prosecuted for three crimes. Before entering the DNA HQs he said: “If we passed the Tax Code, now I can…

President Klaus Iohannis argues that in recent months he had talked several times with Premier Victor Ponta about the dignitaries’ wages, on the latter’s initiative, showing that he cannot accept that “a Government jointly adopted a certain…

Prime minister Victor Ponta got a fine representing 20 percent of the gross minimum wage for every day of delaying to bring into force a court ruling in the case of Rompetrol Refining case, Constanta Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday.…

PM Victor Ponta attacked president Klaus Iohannis once again on Sunday night on Mihai Razvan Ungureanu’s nomination as director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE). The joint chambers of Parliament are scheduled to vote on Ungureanu’s…

Social Democrat Party chairman Victor Ponta delegated Rovana Plumb (Labour minister) to temporarily take over his position as party president until he returns to Romania from the Turkish hospital where he has undergone the knee surgery.…

President Klaus Iohannis signed on Monday evening the decree designating Gabriel Oprea as interim premier while the incumbent PM Victor Ponta is on sick leave following its knee surgery. Previously, the president had not accepted Gabriel…

Vice premier Oprea to take over prime minister duties. PM Victor Ponta informed on Sunday that the doctors that operated him decided he could be discharged, but he would resume the duties deriving from his position in 28 days. Ponta also…

PM Ponta’s adviser on Romanians abroad, Cornel Vi?oianu (photo) informed he would leave office, arguing he decided to return to the “associative environment”. He made his announcement on Facebook. Vi?oianu has been named for this position…