Career in national politics On 17 September 2016, Dragoș Tudorache was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, after having previously been head of the chancellery in the
Cioloș Cabinet, an apolitical, technocratic government. He held this position until 4 January 2017, when the
Grindeanu Cabinet was invested, following the
legislative elections. Immediately after the establishment of the Party of
Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party (PLUS) on 15 December 2018, Tudorache joined this party and ran in its internal elections for the
2019 European elections.
Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present Following the
2019 elections, Tudorache was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's five-year work program on the rule of law, borders and migration. He later joined the
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of
Pegasus and equivalent surveillance
spyware (since 2022). In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's
rapporteur on the
United States–European Union relations and the
Artificial Intelligence Act. In 2021, he also joined the parliament's working group on
Frontex, led by
Roberta Metsola. In addition to his committee assignments, Tudorache is part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with the United States and with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption. Since 2021, Tudorache has been serving as deputy chair of the
Renew Europe parliamentary group, under the leadership of chair
Stéphane Séjourné. In 2024, Tudorache was the joint winner, alongside Italian MEP
Brando Benifei, of the "MEP of the Mandate" award at
The Parliament Magazine's annual
MEP Awards. ==Political positions==