Politicians who missed entry to Parliament

The surprising results of the MPs, different from the estimates within the parties, have left many well-known politicians out of the legislature. After two terms as senator between 2012-2016 and 2016-2020 and two terms as minister, of European Funds, respectively of Public Finance, the Social Democrat Eugen Teodorovici was left out. Although the Tulcea PSD list was opened, the senator terms assigned to this county were obtained by AUR and USR-PLUS. “Some lose from first place, others win from last. Yes, the PSD won the congressional elections in Tulcea County, but the vote of the people of Tulcea did not matter,” he wrote on Twitter a few days after learning the result of the elections.

The head of the Liberal Youth, Mara Mareş, missed the entry into Parliament, after being in the eighth position of the Chamber of Deputies on the list of the NLP in Bucharest. The Liberals won only seven seats in the capital, so Mara Mareş missed Parliament. Petre Florin Manole, a former Bucharest MP for 2016-2020, was also unlucky. In tenth place on the list for the Chamber of Deputies, the PSD Sector 1 organization took office a few weeks ago, after the former president, Daniel Tudorache, was forced by the Social Democratic leadership to suspend himself from the party, as a result of the criminal case. the DNA. On the same list, in second place, was Daniel Tudorache, about whom Marcel Ciolacu stated that he would be left without a mandate, but that it was validated by Parliament. A possible resignation of Tudorache would mean the return of Manole to Parliament.

The Liberals, without the TNL leader but also without the OFL leader

Although deemed eligible, Florica Cherecheş, the Liberal Women’s leader, missed her third term as a Bihor NLP MP, after the party scored well below expectations. Although in local elections the Liberals obtained 61% of the county council in Bihor County, the NLP obtained only 34% of the votes in parliament.

Also after eight years of mandate as a deputy, the liberal Vasile Varga, one of the richest parliamentarians, who was a few votes away from renewing his mandate, as a deputy for Brăila, remains at home. Despite being in the second position of the PNL Brăila list, it remained abroad after the party obtained only 17% in parliament, far behind the PSD, which obtained 44%, due to the electoral locomotive Mihai Tudose.

Tit-Liviu Brăiloiu, who was number two in the parliamentary elections in the Senate on the PSD Constanza list, was also in an eligible position. Although in the elections of other years Constanta was considered a stronghold of the PSD and the Social Democrats relied on at least two seats in the Senate and four in the Chamber of Deputies, since in this constituency there are 11 seats for deputy and five for senator, the organization led by Felix Stroe produced only one senator and three deputies.

As for the regrettable lack of a few votes, the best known case of this election is that of activist Valeriu Nicolae, who ran as an independent in the Bucharest Chamber of Deputies. Valeriu Nicolae was initially 46 votes away from entering Parliament. Although he made eight appeals, after which he recovered 29 votes, Nicolae fell 17 votes away from the parliamentary term.

Party leaders who did not cross the threshold

Despite trusting his constituency, Victor Ponta missed his fifth term as a deputy after his party, Pro Romania, failed to reach the 5% threshold. Together with Ponta, he said goodbye to Parliament and Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, partner of the former prime minister through the merger of ALDE with Pro Romania. The PMP also remained outside Parliament, a party in which experienced politicians such as Marius Paşcan (two seats) or Petru Movilă (four seats) participated. The obtaining of only 1% of the votes by the PER also meant the departure from the great politics of some former members of the PSD such as Şerban Nicolae (three seats), Cătălin Rădulescu (three seats) or Liviu Pleşoianu (one seat)

Retreat of the “dinosaurs”

Traditional parties like PSD, PNL or UDMR have been “shaken” by some of the controversial parliamentarians. Eugen Nicolicea (seven seats), Florin Iordache (five seats, currently elected president of the Legislative Council), Ecaterina Andronescu (six seats) or Iulian Iancu (four seats) were no longer on the PSD list. Marton Arpad (eight seats), the emblematic figure of the Hungarian association with the PSD, withdrew from the UDMR, while politicians such as Víctor Paul Dobre (four seats) or Cezar Preda (four seats) were removed from the PNL. Another political figure of the last three decades, Varujan Vosganian (seven terms), announced before the parliamentary elections, when the ALDE situation was uncertain, that he was retiring from political life.