Klaus Iohannis
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Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkla.us joˈhanis], German: [ˈklaʊ̯s joˈhanɪs]; also spelled Johannis) is a Romanian physics teacher and politician, born 13 June 1959 (age 55). He was elected the fifth President of Romania on 16 November 2014. He became leader of the National Liberal Party in 2014, after having served as leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania from 2002 to 2013.
Iohannis entered politics in 2000, when he was first elected mayor of the city of Sibiu, representing the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania. Although the German population of the once predominantly German-speaking city of Sibiu has declined to a tiny minority, Iohannis won a surprise victory and was re-elected by landslides in 2004 and 2008. Iohannis is credited with turning his city into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations, and the city was declared a European Capital of Culture in 2007. In February 2013, Iohannis became a member of the National Liberal Party, accepting an invitation from Liberal leader Crin Antonescu, and was immediately elected the party's First Vice President, becoming the party's President the following year.
In October 2009, four of the five political groups in the Parliament, excluding the Democrat Liberal Party of then-President Traian Băsescu, proposed him as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister of Romania; however, Băsescu refused to nominate him despite the Parliament's adoption of a declaration supporting his candidacy. He was again the candidate for Prime Minister of the National Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party in the elections in the same year.
Iohannis is a Transylvanian Saxon, part of Romania's German minority which settled in Transylvania in the 12th century. He was a physics teacher before entering politics.
In 2014, he was registered as an official presidential candidate for the November general elections. He received 30.37% of the votes in the first round.
At the second round on November 16 he was elected President of Romania with 56% of the votes.
On November 16th, Klaus Iohannis was elected the fifth President Of Romania. He is due to take office on 22 December. His presidential campaign focused on fighting corruption and on improving the justice system
Romania election surprise as Klaus Iohannis wins presidency
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Opposition candidate Klaus Iohannis has won a surprise victory in Romania's presidential election, defeating PM Victor Ponta after a tight race.
With most results declared, Mr Iohannis, mayor of Sibiu, had 54.5% of the vote to Mr Ponta's 45.5%.
Mr Iohannis, 55 and an ethnic German, vowed to change politics and said "another kind of Romania is beginning".
Romania is one of the most corrupt EU states, something the centre-right Mr Iohannis has vowed to tackle.
Despite the election result, Mr Ponta told a local TV channel that he had "no reason to resign" as prime minister.
He had hoped to become the country's youngest president, replacing the incumbent Traian Basescu who cannot stand for re-election after serving two terms.
Made his name as mayor of Sibiu, a major tourist destination in Transylvania
A Protestant former physics teacher from Romania's ethnic German minority
Ethnic German minority dates back to 12th Century but most left after the 1989 fall of dictator Ceausescu
Campaigned against corruption
Became leader of Liberal party (PNL) in June
Romania's large diaspora of up to four million people played a key role in the election. Many expat voters were said to be disillusioned with Mr Ponta.
After the first round of voting there were protests at polling stations in Paris, London and other cities. In some places voters had to queue for hours - with some unable to vote - leading to the resignation of the foreign minister last week.
The number of expatriate voters on Sunday more than doubled to 379,000 and large queues thronged polling stations at embassies and consulates across Europe, from Milan and Munich to London and Portsmouth.
Police in Paris fired tear gas on Sunday evening to disperse voters angry that they had been unable to cast their ballots. The new foreign minister had suggested that voters in France should travel instead to the eastern city of Nancy.
Romanian media praise election result
Evenimentul Zilei newspaper: "It was not Klaus Iohannis who persuaded people to vote for him, but the arrogant attitude of [Ponta's] PSD party which triggered a popular backlash"
Mediafax news agency: "The presidential election has been won by patient voters and lost by the authorities"
Dumitru Bortun, pundit on Digi24 TV website: "Romania has reached a level where it can think about its political interests beyond ethnic backgrounds, language, religion, beyond these outdated and medieval identity issues"
Mr Ponta had been leading in the opinion polls and had beaten Mr Iohannis, the mayor of Sibiu in Transylvania, in the first round of the presidential election.
"We are a democratic country," Mr Ponta said outside the headquarters of his Social Democratic Party on Sunday. "The people are always right."
Mr Ponta, 42, had promised to reduce the budget deficit, increase pensions and the minimum wage.
As prime minister, he oversaw economic growth and political stability in Romania, the EU's second-poorest state after Bulgaria.
Aside from tackling corruption, Mr Iohannis, 55, promised in his election campaign to strengthen the independence of the judicial system.
Romania presidential election: Profile of Klaus Iohannis
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Profile of Klaus Iohannis
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Victor Ponta
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Victor-Viorel Ponta (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈviktor ˈponta]; born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian jurist and politician who currently serves as Prime Minister of Romania since being appointed by President Traian Băsescu in May 2012. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader since 2010, as well as joint leader (2012-2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County since 2004. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.
A finalist in the November 2014 presidential election, Ponta lost to Klaus Iohannis.
Ponta and his first wife Roxana, a high school sweetheart,have one son; they were married in 1998 and divorced in 2006. That October, in China, he quietly wed Daciana Sârbu, a future Member of the European Parliament and the daughter of Ponta's Boc cabinet colleague Ilie Sârbu. The couple's relationship had become serious in 2004, after Ponta's son was born; they had a daughter in March 2008 and married in a Romanian Orthodox ceremony in the church in Bucharest's Grădina Icoanei that June.
Ponta is the winner of the 1989 youth national championship in basketball, where he played for CSA Steaua București; and of the 2008 Dacia Logan Cup, where he was a co-pilot. In addition, he is an avowed supporter of FC Steaua București football club. He was made a knight of the National Order for Faithful Service in 2002, and in 2004 received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity
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