Eugen Tomac, President Dan's nomination for prime minister (bio)
President Nicusor Dan picked on June 4 MEP Eugen Tomac for prime minister.
Under the Constitution, the prime-minister-designate must seek, within ten days of nomination, seek Parliament's confidence vote on the government program and full Cabinet list.
Eugen Tomac was born on June 27, 1981 in the Babele commune (Oziornoe), Ismail district, Odessa region, in southern Bessarabia (now Ukraine), according to the Chamber of Deputies website.
He graduated from the 'Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi' Centre for Romanians Worldwide (1999) and the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest (2003), where he also completed a master's program on 'Romania in the 20th Century' (2005). He has been a PhD candidate at the same university since 2006.
In 2000, he became a founding member and president of the League of Young Romanians Everywhere, leading the organisation for many years. In this role, he carried out several projects with the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, including the 'News to Know' program, implemented with U.S. State Department support in disadvantaged rural areas of Romania, https://pmp.ro/ informs.
He is also a founding member of the Centre for Democratic Education (2005).
Tomac completed the 'European and Euro-Atlantic Studies' course at the Euro-Atlantic Studies Centre (2003), as well as training programs in NGO management (International Visitor Leadership Program, Washington, 2007) and Human Resources Management (Romanian Institute for Economic-Social Research and Polling, 2007).
Tomac began his professional career as an editor at Magazin Istoric / History Magazine (2004 - 2006). In 2005 he coordinated the 'Focus on Romanians' study, a report on the situation of Romanians abroad and issues related to discrimination in neighboring countries and the diaspora.
He served as an expert on relations with Romanians abroad within the Presidential Administration (2006 - 2007), and later as an assistant at the 'Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi' Institute (2007 - 2008).
He was appointed Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Romanians Everywhere (2009 - 2010) and subsequently within the Romanian Government (2010 - 2012). In 2012 he became state adviser with the Presidential Administration.
A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) from 2008 to 2013, Tomac served as first Vice-President of the PDL Diaspora Organisation (2008 - 2012). Elected to Parliament in December 2012 as a PDL deputy for the Diaspora constituency, he served in several parliamentary groups and held positions including chair of the Committee for Romanians Abroad and chair of the Romania - Latvia Friendship Group.
On July 19. 2013, he left PDL to join the People's Movement Foundation, which later became the People's Movement (PMP). Within PMP he served as Chairman (2013 - 2014; 2015), Deputy Chairman (2014 - 2015), and again Chairman (2015 - 2020; from February 2022 to present).
Re-elected to Parliament in 2016 as a PMP deputy for Bucharest, he led the PMP parliamentary group until 2019 and served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the European Affairs Committee, and the joint Romania - Moldova European Integration Committee.
At the May 2019 European Parliament elections, he was elected MEP on the PMP list, joining the European People's Party Group. He served on the Employment and Social Affairs Committee (2019-2022), the Subcommittee on Human Rights (2019-2022), and several EU partnership delegations, and was an alternate member of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in Democratic Processes (2021-2022).
After PMP failed to reach the electoral threshold in the 2020 parliamentary elections (4.94%), Tomac resigned as party leader, but was re-elected Chairman on February 19, 2022.
On December 18, 2023, the leaders of USR, PMP and Force of the Right - Catalin Drula, Eugen Tomac and Ludovic Orban - announced the formation of the United Right Alliance ahead of the 2024 elections. The alliance submitted 43 candidates to the Central Electoral Bureau on June 4, 2024, with the list headed by Dan Barna, Vlad Voiculescu and Eugen Tomac.
At the June 9, 2024 European Parliament elections, Tomac was elected MEP on the United Right Alliance list. As an MEP from PMP, he is a member of the Renew Europe Group and sits on the Committee on Culture and Education, the EU - Serbia Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee, and the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He is also an alternate member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, the Petitions Committee, the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield, and the EU - Moldova Association Parliamentary Committee.
On October 6, 2025, he was appointed honorary adviser on relations with Romanians abroad within the Presidential Administration.
Eugen Tomac has received several distinctions, including the 'Dimitrie Cantemir' commemorative medal (2009), the 'St. George the Victory-Bearer' Order of the Metropolis of Bessarabia (2010), and the 'Balkan Spirit Award' from 'Balcanii si Europa' magazine (2011). AGERPRES (RO - documentary research by Liviu Tatu; EN - writing by: Simona Klodnischi)
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