History of Romania since 2007

Presidential and parliamentary elections took place again on November 28, 2004. No political party was able to secure a viable parliamentary majority, amidst accusations from international observers and opposition parties alike, that the PSD had committed large-scale electoral fraud. There was no winner in the first round of the presidential elections. Finally, the joint PNL-PD candidate, , won the second round on December 12, 2004 with 51% of the vote and thus became the third post-revolutionary president of Romania.

The PNL leader, , was assigned the difficult task of building a coalition government excluding the PSD. In December 2004, the new coalition government (PD, PNL, PUR (Romanian Humanist Party) and UDMR) under prime minister TÄƒriceanu was sworn in.

Romania joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2004, and the European Union (EU), alongside Bulgaria, on January 1, 2007.

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