The USR PLUS national bureau decided on Friday that the congress of 2nd and 3rd October will take place under conditions of extreme safety, with a maximum of 150 people simultaneously in the big hall of Romexpo, shows a press release of the party. The event will be attended only by vaccinated people, according to a decision taken in July by the National Bureau, as well as taking into consideration the epidemiological situation and the restrictions for public event organization, USR PLUS assumes the observance of rules and decided to organize the congress in a hybrid system. Thus, in the first day of the congress there will be present at the Romexpo the co-chairmen USR PLUS, the members of the National Bureau, the teams which candidate for the National Bureau and who will deliver speeches, international guests, the electoral commission, the technical staff and the press. The hall will accommodate at most 150 people simultaneously, who will observe the regulations for social distancing and will wear a mask, according to the quoted source. The 1,200 delegates who will vote the new National Bureau will come to the venue divided into separate flows. The event at Romexpo of 2nd October will be broadcast live, so that all members USR PLUS follow the speeches. On the second day of the congress, 3rd October, the debates regarding the amendment of the USR PLUS statute will take place in an online meeting. Dacian Ciolos got most votes for the USR PLUS elections but he will get in the second round with Dan Barna, as he didn’t get 50%+ 1 of the validated votes. Thursday, 23rd September, was over the first round of the domestic voting for the election of the USR PLUS chairman: there voted 32,815 (74.4%) of the total of 44,114 electors. The results are the following: Dacian Ciolos: 15,111 (46.0%); Dan Barna: 44,404 (43.9%); Irineu Darau (3,300) (10.1%), a press release of the party shows.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
