PNL

Ilie Bolojan has led it since July 2025. It holds 54 Chamber and 26 Senate seats and led the government until it fell on 5 May 2026. It is named in the question of whether it will be in Romania's next governing coalition.

History

The party traces itself to the National Liberal Party that existed from 1875 to 1947 and was refounded in January 1990 after communism ended. Klaus Iohannis led it before becoming President in 2014. It reached its best post-communist result in 2020 under Ludovic Orban. Ilie Bolojan became Prime Minister in June 2025 and party president in July 2025. After the PSD left the government in April 2026, parliament passed a no-confidence motion on 5 May 2026 and PNL led a caretaker government.

Positions

Wikipedia describes PNL as centre-right, combining liberal conservatism and Christian democracy, favouring economic liberalism, lower taxes and private-sector expansion, with a recent turn towards what it calls economic patriotism. It records that the party opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions. In government under Bolojan it pursued fiscal discipline to cut Romania's budget deficit.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Balkan Insight