2022 in Romania
Incumbents
- President: Klaus Iohannis
- Prime Minister: Nicolae Ciucă
- Deputy Prime Ministers: Hunor Kelemen and Sorin Grindeanu
- President of the Chamber of Deputies: Marcel Ciolacu
- President of the Senate: Florin Cîțu
- President of the High Court of Cassation and Justice: Corina Corbu
- President of the Constitutional Court: Valer Dorneanu
- Ciucă Cabinet
Ongoing events
Events
January
- 3 January – After the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) criticized government plans for introduction of sex education and the history of the Holocaust in the school curriculum, PNL deputy Alexandru Muraru demanded for the outlawing of the party, submitting penal complaints on the party's then-co-presidents, George Simion and Claudiu Târziu.[1]
- 11 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The National Institute of Public Health (INSP) announces that all criteria for nationwide community transmission of the Omicron variant were met.[2]
- 12 January – The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) begins negotiations with the PNL, the party from which it split in 2014, for a potential merge between the two parties.[3]
- 13 January:
- A police car, going fast inside locality, hits two girls aged 11 and 13, respectively, who were crossing a street in Sector 1 of Bucharest. The latter subsequently died.[4][5]
- COVID-19 pandemic: The National Committee for Emergency Situations (CNSU) adopts Decision no. 3/2022, which lets schools operate normally (i.e. with physical presence of students) regardless of their vaccination rate and the locality's incidence rate, as long as the grade of occupation of hospital beds reserved for COVID-19 patients (in the county in which the school is located) stays below 75%.[6][7]
- 20 January – General strike at Societatea de Transport București (STB) leads to metro crowding and traffic jam in Bucharest, while the STB fleet of buses, trolleybuses and trams remains unused.[8] The strike continued despite being suspended by the Bucharest Court.[9][10]
- 22 January – COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of cases nationwide exceeds 2 million.[11]
- 26 January:
- COVID-19 pandemic: The vaccination campaign begins for the population aged 5-11.[12]
- The Romanian Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) met to discuss the security situation in the eastern flank of NATO, amid Russian plans for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that would begin a month later.[13]
- 28 January – Marcel Boloș was sworn in as Minister of Digitalisation for the Ciucă Cabinet. He succeeded Florin Roman, who resigned over a month prior.[14]
February
- 1 February – The 2022 Romanian census begins, after being initially postponed from 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]
April
From left to right: CFR Călători, Romanian Border Police and MApN being inaccessible, as a result of the DDOS attack of the morning of 29 April 2022.
- 21 April – The first expressway-type road opens in Romania, a 16 km long section of the DEx12 expressway, between Slatina and Balș.[16]
- 29 April – 2022 cyberattacks on Romania: At 04:05 EEST, a DDOS attack is launched against www.mapn.ro, the website of the Ministry of National Defence (Romanian: Ministerul Apărării Naționale, MApN). As of 09:24 EEST, the websites of the Government (Romanian: Guvernul României) – gov.ro, Ministry of National Defence – mapn.ro, Border Police (Romanian: Poliția de Frontieră Română) – politiadefrontiera.ro and CFR Călători – cfrcalatori.ro had been taken down by DDOS attacks, with the website of the Romanian Government being restored in the meantime. As of 10:20 EEST, CFR Călători has issued alternative means of purchasing train tickets online.[17] At 19:30 EEST, the website of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) – psd.ro had been also taken down.[18] Behind the attack was believed to be a pro-Kremlin hacking group.[19]
Deaths
- 8 January – Attila Kelemen, Romanian politician (born 1948).[20]
References
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- "VIDEO Primul tronson de drum expres din România se deschide azi: Cum arată DEx12 de lângă Balș cu câteva ore înainte de inaugurare". www.hotnews.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2022-04-29.
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