After the
2021 Romanian political crisis, PNL, PSD, and UDMR/RMDSZ reached an agreement to rule the country together through a grand coalition for the next seven years. Thus, it was agreed that the
prime minister of Romania and several other important ministries should be changed every year and a half. Consequently, the first prime minister to be appointed was
Nicolae Ciucă of PNL.
Ciucă Cabinet was sworn in on 25 November, the day
Florin Cîțu,
Rareș Bogdan,
Marcel Ciolacu,
Hunor Kelemen, and Varujan Pambuccian founded the coalition. Up until the swearing in of Ciucă's cabinet, it was referred to as the CRDP. On 23 November 2021,
Marcel Ciolacu (PSD) was elected president of the
Chamber of Deputies. On the same day,
Anca Dragu (USR) was dismissed as
Senate of Romania chairman, being replaced by the former prime minister
Florin Cîțu (PNL). In early 2022, the coalition's activity was praised by Iohannis, who is the incumbent
president of Romania, stating that "the Romanian political class has shown democratic maturity". On 12 June 2023, according to the protocol of the CNR, Ciucă resigned. The next day, Iohannis designated
Marcel Ciolacu to be the next prime minister. Ciucă became the
president of the Senate of Romania on 13 June 2023. UDMR also withdrew from the coalition after PNL decided to take the
Minister of Development, Public Works and Administration, which was held by UDMR in the Ciucă Cabinet. On 15 June 2023, the
Parliament of Romania voted the
Ciolacu Cabinet. Iohannis praised the new PSD-PNL coalition, saying that this new model implemented in Romanian politics, in reference to the government rotation, "has worked very well so far". He also declared that "the fact that today we are here to formalize the rotation of the prime ministers shows a new level of seriousness of the coalition." According to the
World Press Freedom Index, the
freedom of the press in Romania declined during Ciucă's premiership, from 75.09 in 2021 to 69.04 in 2023. After the
2024 Romanian parliamentary election Marcel Ciolacu's
Second Cabinet was sworned with the rejoining of UDMR/RMDSZ. On 19 February 2025, the grand coalition was succeeded by the Romania Forward Electoral Alliance for supporting the
presidency of
Crin Antonescu. It was a
social conservative electoral alliance in
Romania, consisting of the
Social Democratic Party (PSD), the
National Liberal Party (PNL) and the
Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). The alliance supported the candidacy of former PNL leader
Crin Antonescu during the
2025 Romanian presidential election, where he finished third with 20.07% vote. Following the results, Prime Minister
Marcel Ciolacu announced that PSD would leave the coalition and resigned from the position of
Prime Minister, which resulted in the coalition falling. == Ideology ==