Prime Minister of Romania

Prime Minister of Romania
Flag of the Prime Minister of Romania
Incumbent Emil Boc since 22 December 2008
Residence	Victoria Palace
Appointer	President of Romania
Term length	four years
Inaugural holder	Barbu Catargiu
Formation	22 January 1862
Website	www.guv.ro/prim-ministru

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The Prime Minister of Romania is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers (Romanian: Preşedintele Consiliului de Miniştri), when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers (Consiliul de Miniştri). The title was officially changed to Prime Minister during the communist regime.

Currently, the prime minister is Emil Boc, president of the Democratic Liberal Party. He and his cabinet were confirmed by Parliament on 22 December 2008. On 13 October 2009, Boc and his cabinet were defeated following a no-confidence motion, rendering him Acting Prime Minister. He was reconfirmed in office on 23 December of that year after Traian Băsescu was re-elected President of Romania and the latter re-appointed Boc.

Nomination

According to the Romanian Constitution, the President of the Republic shall designate a candidate to the office of Prime Minister, as a result of his consultation with the party which has obtained absolute majority in Parliament, or -unless such majority exists - with the parties represented in Parliament.^{[citation needed]}

The candidate to the office of Prime Minister shall, within ten days of his designation, seek the vote of confidence of Parliament upon the programme and complete list of the Government. The programme and list of the Government shall be debated upon by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, in joint sitting. Parliament shall grant confidence to the Government by a majority vote of the Deputies and Senators.^{[citation needed]}

The Prime Minister, the Ministers and other members of the Government shall individually take an oath before the President of Romania, as provided under Article 82. The Government as a whole and each of its members shall exercise the mandate from the date of taking the oath.^{[citation needed]}

Functions

See also: Government of Romania

The Prime Minister shall direct Government actions and co-ordinate activities of its members, with the observance of the powers and duties incumbent on them. Likewise, he shall submit to the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate reports and statements on Government policy, to be debated with priority.^{[citation needed]}

The President cannot dismiss the Prime Minister.^{[citation needed]}

List of Prime Ministers of Romania

Main article: List of Prime Ministers of Romania

Since 1990, Romania had nine Prime Ministers and three ministers held the office ad interim. Numbers in the table bellow represent the order since 1862; interim officeholders are not numbered, are denoted by italics.

The political stance of prime ministers after the development of a modern party system is given by:

PNL = National Liberal Party	FSN = National Salvation Front
PDSR = Party of Social Democracy in Romania (from 2001 PSD; Social Democratic Party)	PNŢCD = Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
PSDR = Romanian Social Democratic Party	PD-L = Democratic Liberal Party
Ind. = Independent

#	Name	Portrait	Born-Died	Took office	Left office	Party	Cabinet
53	Petre Roman		1946–	26 December 1989	16 October 1991	FSN	Roman I
				28 June 1990	30 April 1991		Roman II
				30 April 1991	16 October 1991		Roman III
54	Theodor Stolojan		1943–	16 October 1991	19 November 1992	FSN	Stolojan I
55	Nicolae Văcăroiu		1943–	19 November 1992	11 December 1996	PDSR	Văcăroiu I
56	Victor Ciorbea		1954–	12 December 1996	17 April 1998	PNŢCD	Ciorbea I
—	Gavril Dejeu		1932–	30 March 1998	17 April 1998	PNŢCD
57	Radu Vasile		1942–	17 April 1998	22 December 1999	PNŢCD	Vasile I
—	Alexandru Athanasiu		1955–	13 December 1999	22 December 1999	PSDR
58	Mugur Isărescu		1949–	22 December 1999	28 December 2000	Ind.	Isărescu I
59	Adrian Năstase		1950–	28 December 2000	21 December 2004	PSDR/PSD	Năstase I
—	Eugen Bejinariu		1959–	21 December 2004	28 December 2004	PSD
60	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu		1952–	29 December 2004	5 April 2007	PNL	Tăriceanu I
				5 April 2007	22 December 2008		Tăriceanu II
61	Emil Boc		1966–	22 December 2008	23 December 2009	PD-L	Boc Cabinets
				23 December 2009	Incumbent

Timeline

References

• Nicolae C. Nicolescu, Şefii de stat şi de guvern ai României (1859–2003), Editura Meronia, Bucharest, 2003
• Stelian Neagoe, Istoria guvernelor României de la începuturi - 1859 până în zilele noastre - 1995, Editura Machiavelli, Bucharest, 1995

External links

• (Romanian) Guvernele României
• Government site