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List of heads of government of Romania

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This is a list consisting of all the heads of government of modern and contemporary Romania (i.e. prime ministers, both in full constitutional powers and acting or ad interim), since the formal unification of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1862 to the present day.

The incumbent prime minister of Romania, as of 14 August 2025, is Ilie Bolojan, the current leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), who has been serving since 23 June 2025. The Bolojan cabinet is composed of the PNL, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Save Romania Union (USR) and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR).

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Affiliations

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The political stance of Romanian prime ministers prior to the development of a modern party system is given by the following affiliations in the table below:

  C (Conservative)  MC (Moderate Conservative)
  RL (Radical Liberal)  ML (Moderate Liberal)

The political stance of Romanian prime ministers after the development of a modern party system is given by the following affiliations in the table below:

  PNL = National Liberal Party (historical)/(contemporary)  PC = Conservative Party
  PNR = Romanian National Party  PP = People's Party
  PNȚ/PNȚCD = National Peasants' Party/Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party  PCD = Conservative-Democratic Party
  PND = Democratic Nationalist Party  PNC = National Christian Party
  FRN = National Renaissance Front
(from 1940 PN; Party of the Nation)
  FP = Ploughmen's Front
  PMR = Romanian Workers' Party
(from 1965 PCR; Romanian Communist Party)
  FSN = National Salvation Front
  PDSR = Party of Social Democracy in Romania
(from 2001 PSD; Social Democratic Party)
  PSDR = Romanian Social Democratic Party
  PDL = Democratic Liberal Party  UNPR = National Union for the Progress of Romania
  ALDE = Alliance of Liberals and Democrats
  Mil. = Military  Ind. = Independent

Ad interim/acting officeholders are denoted by italics.

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List of officeholders

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United Principalities (1859–1881)

From 1859 to 1862, the two Romanian principalities (more specifically Moldavia and Wallachia) had their own government each, and a cabinet, seated in Iași and Bucharest respectively. In 1862, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza changed the Constitution and from then on there has been a single unified central government, permanently seated in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

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Kingdom of Romania (1881–1947)

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Romanian People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Romania (1947–1989)

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Romania (1989–present)

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Note: Romania used the Julian calendar prior to April 1919, so all dates before that are given in the Julian calendar; all dates after that are given in the Gregorian calendar.

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Timeline

Ilie BolojanMarcel CiolacuFlorin CîțuNicolae CiucăLudovic OrbanViorica DăncilăMihai FiforMihai TudoseSorin GrindeanuDacian CioloșSorin CîmpeanuGabriel OpreaVictor PontaMihai Răzvan UngureanuCătălin PredoiuEmil BocCălin Popescu-TăriceanuEugen BejinariuAdrian NăstaseMugur IsărescuAlexandru AthanasiuRadu VasileGavril DejeuVictor CiorbeaNicolae VăcăroiuTheodor StolojanPetre RomanList of members of the National Salvation Front CouncilConstantin DăscălescuIlie VerdețManea MănescuIon Gheorghe MaurerChivu StoicaGheorghe Gheorghiu-DejPetru GrozaNicolae RădescuConstantin SănătescuIon AntonescuIon GigurtuConstantin ArgetoianuGheorghe ArgeșanuArmand CălinescuPatriarch Miron of RomaniaOctavian GogaGheorghe TătărescuConstantin AngelescuIon G. DucaNicolae IorgaGheorghe MironescuIuliu ManiuVintilă BrătianuBarbu ȘtirbeyTake IonescuAlexandru Vaida-VoevodArtur VăitoianuConstantin CoandăAlexandru MarghilomanAlexandru AverescuTitu MaiorescuIon I. C. BrătianuPetre P. CarpGheorghe Grigore CantacuzinoPetre S. AurelianDimitrie SturdzaGheorghe ManuTheodor RosettiDumitru BrătianuIon BrătianuIon Emanoil FlorescuManolache Costache EpureanuAlexandru G. GolescuDimitrie GhicaNicolae GolescuȘtefan GolescuConstantin A. KretzulescuLascăr CatargiuIon GhicaConstantin BosianuMihail KogălniceanuNicolae CrețulescuApostol ArsacheBarbu Catargiu

Notes

  1. Due to World War I, the Romanian government served in refuge at Iași, between 3 December 1916 and 29 November 1918.
  2. During this time, Romania changed its calendar, from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, and 1 April 1919 became 14 April 1919 (the month of April only had 17 days that year).
  3. From 14 September 1940, the Prime Minister title was styled Conducător for as long as Marshal Ion Antonescu remained in power as head of the Romanian government.
  4. President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic (1947–1948); President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly (1948–1952)
  5. President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly
  6. President of the State Council
  7. President of the State Council (1967–1974); President of Romania (1974–1989)
  8. Served as ad interim (i.e. acting) PM until 20 June 1990, following the 1990 general election held on 20 May.
  9. Roman is currently a PSD member.
  10. Acting President until 20 June 1990.
  11. Stolojan joined the National Salvation Front (FSN) at the time he took office as Prime Minister back in 1991.
  12. Stolojan is currently a PNL member.
  13. From 10 July 1993.
  14. Subsequently adhered to the PNL and was a member of this party between 2012 and 2014. Currently, Ciorbea is politically unaffiliated.
  15. Dejeu was the first post-1989 acting/ad interim Prime Minister of Romania and the first such Prime Minister since Constantin Angelescu of the PNL who very briefly served in this position for only 5 days during the interwar period (more specifically between late December 1933–early January 1934).
  16. Athanasiu is currently a PSD member.
  17. The first politically non-attached/non-partisan fully technocratic Prime Minister of post-1989 Romania at the time he acceded to governance (despite past ties as undercover informer for the Securitate). Currently, Isărescu is non-affiliated politically and still the Governor of the National Bank of Romania (BNR).
  18. Yet somewhat affiliated with the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) as he was later on the official presidential candidate of the revamped CDR 2000 in the 2000 Romanian general election
  19. PSDR and PDSR merged into the PSD on 16 June 2001.
  20. Suspended in 2007 for 33 day (replaced by Nicolae Văcăroiu as acting president) and in 2012 for 48 days (replaced by Crin Antonescu as acting president).
  21. Subsequently quit the PNL and co-founded ALDE before switching to Ponta's PRO Romania in a short-lived merger of ALDE and the former party which lasted between 2020 and early 2021. Currently, Tăriceanu is politically non-affiliated.
  22. Until 4 December 2006.
  23. Boc is currently a PNL member.
  24. Cătălin Predoiu is the all time Romanian ad interim/acting Prime Minister of Romania who both served the fewest and longest number of days in office and the only who did it three times.
  25. Prior to becoming an independent ad interim/acting Prime Minister of Romania, Predoiu was a PNL-AT member during the early 1990s and afterwards a PDL and subsequently PNL member.
  26. Prior to becoming an independent ad interim/acting Prime Minister of Romania, Ungureanu was a PNL member and later on the president of Civic Force (FC) and a PDL member.
  27. Subsequently quit the PSD and founded his own centre-left party, namely PRO Romania, which he has been presiding to this day.
  28. Subsequently quit ALDE and joined Ponta's PRO Romania. Eventually, he also quit PRO Romania to join the PNL of which he has been a member to the present day.
  29. Subsequently founded his own party, PLUS, then briefly became USR president, and is currently associated with REPER.
  30. Subsequently quit the PSD and switched to Ponta's PRO Romania in 2019 before eventually re-joining the PSD in early 2020.
  31. Subsequently quit the PSD and became the president of the NOI party in 2022.
  32. until 27 August 2019.
  33. The Orban government was the first entirely national liberal government of Romania in 82 years, after the one previously led by Gheorghe Tătărescu during the interwar period, more specifically from 1934 to 1937.[1]
  34. Subsequently quit the PNL in late 2021 with a group of followers (more specifically 13 deputies and 3 senators at parliamentary level) to establish his own centre-right party, namely Force of the Right (FD), which he has been presiding since December 2021 to the present day.
  35. Although he had formally become a politician in 2020, Nicolae Ciucă was the first military leader (more specifically general, albeit retired) to serve as Prime Minister of Romania (both acting/ad interim and in full constitutional powers) since the end of World War II. Additionally, he was the only Romanian Prime Minister to date to have initially served as acting head of government and then as head of government proper (i.e. in full constitutional powers).
  36. After he was dismissed by a record-voted motion of no confidence passed with 281 votes on 5 October 2021, Florin Cîțu still served as ad interim/acting Prime Minister in charge of a minority PNL-UDMR/RMDSZ government between October and November 2021. He had previously served as acting/ad interim Prime Minister since September 2021, just after USR PLUS (now USR) decided to leave government.
  37. to 7 September 2021.
  38. Acting President from 12 February to 26 May.
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