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See also:	Other events of 2019 History of Romania Timeline of Romanian history Years in Romania

Events of 2019 inRomania.

• 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)

• 1 January – Start of the2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.^[2]

• 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 ofUSR andPLUS 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 theprevious election.^[4] Their coalition partners fromALDE drop under the 5% threshold.^[3]
  • Thereferendum against judicial amnesties reaches the required turnout to be valid.^[5]
• 27 May – TheHigh Court of Cassation and Justice upholds the ruling sentencingLiviu Dragnea, leader of the governingPSD, 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 DemocratMarcel Ciolacu as its President.^[7]

• 30 June – End of the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.^[2]

• 26 August –ALDE decides to leave the ruling coalition and join the opposition.^[8] As a result, three of its four ministers resign.

• 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 againstPNL candidateAlina Gorghiu.^[10]

• 10 October –Dăncilă Cabinet collapses after losing ano-confidence vote.^[11]

• 4 November –PNL leaderLudovic Orban is voted in as the newPrime Minister of Romania.^[12]PSD andPRO Romania officially boycott the vote.^[13]

• 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]

• 3 February –Stephen Negoesco, 93, Romanian-AmericanHall of Fame soccer player and manager.^[17]

• 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]

• 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]

• 20 May –Remus Opriș, 60, Romanian politician,MP (1992–2000).^[27]
• 25 May –Nicolae Pescaru, 76, Romanian footballer (Brașov,national team).^[28]

• 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]

• 4 July –Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder ofCANDLES 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]

• 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]

• 7 September –Sava Dumitrescu, pharmacologist (b. 1927)^[41]
• 18 September –Alexandru Darie, 60, Romanian theater director.^[42]

• 15 October –Tamara Buciuceanu, 90, Romanian actress (Silent Wedding,Everybody in Our Family), heart disease.^[43]
• 29 October –Mihai Constantinescu [ro], singer^[44]

• 2 November –Leo Iorga, 54, Romanian rock singer and guitarist, lung cancer.^[45]
• 3 November –Sorin Frunzăverde, 59, Romanian politician,MP (2007–2009) andMinister 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]

• 23 December –Georgeta Snegur, 82, Romanian-born Moldovan socialite,First Lady (1990–1997).^[50]

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