2024 Romanian presidential election

2024 Romanian presidential election

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Opinion polls

Nominee Marcel Ciolacu Nicolae Ciucă Mircea Geoană Party PSD PNL Independent Alliance MRR   Nominee George Simion Elena Lasconi Cristian Diaconescu Party AUR USR Independent Alliance API

Map of first round

Incumbent President Klaus Iohannis Independent

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Presidential elections will be held in Romania on 24 November 2024.^[1][2] A second round will be held on 8 December 2024 if no candidate receives an absolute majority of the vote.^[2][3] They will be the ninth presidential elections held in post-1989 Romania. As the Romanian Constitution allows a president to be re-elected only once, the incumbent, Klaus Iohannis, first elected in 2014 and then re-elected in 2019, is not eligible for re-election. His second (and last) term will formally end in December 2024.

Nevertheless, there was a speculation according to which the forthcoming Romanian presidential elections might have occurred earlier than to term, assuming that incumbent President Klaus Iohannis would have been nominated as Secretary General of NATO and that he would have accepted the nomination in the meantime, then the election would have likely been called in 2023 instead of 2024.^[4] However, this ultimately did not come to pass, as Dutch former Prime Minister Mark Rutte was chosen to succeed the incumbent Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.^[5]