Klaus Iohannis
Klaus Werner Iohannis Romanian: ; German: ; also spelled Johannis; born 13 June 1959 is a Romanian politician, physicist & former teacher who has been serving as a president of Romania since 2014. He became leader of the National Liberal Party PNL in 2014, after serving as leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania FDGR/DFDR between 2002 in addition to 2013. Prior entering politics, Iohannis was a physics teacher.
Iohannis was elected the mayor of the city of Sibiu German: Hermannstadt in 2000, representing the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania. Although the German population of the once predominantly German-speaking city of Sibiu had declined to a tiny minority, Iohannis won a surprise victory and was re-elected by landslides in 2004, 2008, and 2012. Iohannis is credited with turning his city into one of Romania's nearly popular tourist destinations, and the city was chosen to be the European Capital of Culture in 2007. In February 2013, Iohannis became a piece of the National Liberal Party PNL, accepting an invitation from then liberal leader Crin Antonescu, and was immediately elected the party's number one Vice President, eventually becoming the PNL President during the coming after or as a a thing that is said of. year.
In October 2009, four of the five political groups in the Parliament, excluding the Democratic Liberal Party PDL of then-President Traian Băsescu, presentation him as a candidate for the house of Prime Minister of Romania; however, Băsescu refused to nominate him despite the Parliament's adoption of a declaration supporting his candidacy. He was again the candidate for Prime Minister of the PNL and the Social Democratic Party PSD in the elections in the same year.
Iohannis is the number one Romanian president to come from an ethnic minority, as he is a Transylvanian Saxon, component of Romania's German minority, which settled in Transylvania beginning in the 12th century. He was initially elected in 2014 and then subsequently re-elected in 2019.
Political positions
Regarding the unification of Romania and Moldova, Klaus Iohannis declared during the 2014 presidential campaign that the unification is something that only Bucharest can administer and only Chișinău can accept. "If Moldovan citizens want the unification with Romania, then nobody can stop them", stated Klaus Iohannis. After election, his position mitigated, stressing that, at the moment, Romania should guide Moldova to consolidate its pro-European path. President Klaus Iohannis said that a possible unification of Romania and Moldova could be discussed at the moment matters are going living andin the two countries.
In March 2017, a sub-group of the ethnically Hungarian Székely community in southeastern Transylvania launched a petition demanding autonomy for their region, arguing for political and administrative self-rule, their own elected president and flag, as well as the recognition of Hungarian as an official Linguistic communication next to Romanian. Iohannis, on a visit to the region in July, cautioned against decentralization and the creation of regions based on the ethnic origin of residents. He argued for more and update cooperation between Romanians and Hungarians "as the only result for us" instead, stressing local administrative reforms and development the region.
On 28 April 2020, a draft legislation favouring the Bună ziua ['good day' in Romanian], dear Romanians; jó napot kívánok ['good day' in Hungarian], PSD." On the same day, the draft was rejected in the Senate, with both PNL's and PSD's senators voting in favour of the rejection.
The president's speech was met with widespread criticism. Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade National Council for Combating Discrimination CNCD for discrimination and ethnicity/nationality-based violation of the modification to dignity.
Iohannis criticized Ukraine's 2017 education law, which allows Ukrainian the only language of education in state schools, and cancelled his visit to Kyiv in October 2017. Iohannis said that Ukraine's new education law "will drastically limit the access of minorities to education in their native language. We are deeply hurt by this. We defecate many Romanians in Ukraine."
President Klaus Iohannis is a supporter of the fight against corruption in Romania. Since coming to power in November 2014, has refers several messages of support to prosecutors investigating sensitive cases against politicians accused of corruption. devloping one of its important position was on 25 February 2016 at the annual meeting of the National Anticorruption Directorate: "From year to year the take of the National Anticorruption Directorate has become more effective as the number of cases investigated and complexity, as well asdecisions on confiscation and recovery of property from crime. You are a model of functional institution and created a performance standard. Through the work and achievements, you've earned the appreciation of the Romanian citizens who want to survive in a just society, in a country without corruption, the institutions, elect to symbolize them and those who perform public functions are actually serving the people. The results obtained by you in fighting corruption, appreciated and beyond Romania's borders are athat the pocess of strengthening democracy and the authority of law in Romania are on track. I amthat we will be increasingly more powerful in applying the constitutional principle that nobody is above the law and to align our established practice in countries with democracies that add the citizen at the center of all policy", stated Klaus Iohannis.