Video what Nicușor Dan has done so far from what he promised in the campaign and what he did not respect. Radiography of the first 100 days of mandate

The journalist Laurențiu Ungureanu, the producer of the Hotspot section of Hotnews, analyzes, in an explanatory video, as the first 100 days of Nicușor Dan showed as president, a period that can describe, in miniature, the direction of the entire mandate. With the help of three artificial intelligence engines, the material accounts for all the promises, appearances and facts of the president before and after taking over the mandate.

From the first day of mandate, the president was put in front of hot files: the rotation from the Constitutional Court, the trusted crisis in the intelligence services after the election, an interim government, the budgetary difficulties and the tax negotiations carried out by the Government Ilie Bolojan. Its agenda has been superimposed over these emergencies. The presidential debut was rather defensive, with punctual reactions, than offensive, with new initiatives.

I took as a starting point the day immediately following the oath in Parliament (May 26) and evaluated, domain with domain, the way the new president calibrated his speech and actions. I checked what happened to the key promises-from the appointments at the forefront of the secret services, to the way it has positioned itself towards the justice system or to the files with social impact. I also looked to the area of ​​international relations, where the presence – or the absence – the President of Romania has aroused comments at strategic moments, such as the meetings between EU leaders and the US, in preparing the summit in Alaska, in which Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin.

A few landmarks of this period:

• maintaining the status quo regarding the head of the secret services;
• Appointment of Professor Dacian Dragoș at the CCR, despite the promise “CCR only with magistrates”;
• The management of the case Lia Savonea, where the president avoided notifying the RCC, although the associations of magistrates asked for this;
• Signature on Law 141/2025, which increased VAT, despite the chairman's firm promise, and reduce the budget of the presidential administration by 25% – a symbolic, but quantifiable gesture: 20 million lei;
• In external relations, visits to Chisinau, Warsaw, Vilnius, Odessa, Vienna, but also the way in which the Romanian Presidency stated in the peace process for this region, in the context of the Alaska summit, when Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin;
• Positioning against the antlegnant law, by a complaint to the CCR unanimously rejected.

In parallel, there were also episodes that marked the public perception on the beginning of the mandate: the absence from the funerals of the former president Ion Iliescu, the lack from the Marine Day ceremonies and the first interview given from the position of head of state to the Sâmbăta de Sus Monastery, near Făgăraș. These moments fed the debate on the way in which Nicușor Dan understands the presidential role and reporting to the traditions of function.

I used artificial intelligence (Chatgpt 5 Plus and Perplexity Pro) – processing and analyzing the data from a journalistic point of view – to understand that only about one third of the promises included in the electoral program were, in fact, in the president's area of ​​competence.

Also by this method I could have the mapping, in the president's public speech, the most common topics. These were “finance and budget”, “government and coalitions” and “justice and anti -corruption”, and not “foreign and NATO/EU”, “Republic of Moldova” and “Defense and Security”.

To understand what, in fact, these first 100 days, I compared the profile of the new president with that of his predecessors: Traian Basescu, who started his mandate through decisive moves, and Klaus Iohannis, who chose caution and protocol. Nicuşor Dan was neither president-player, like Traian Basescu, nor president-spectator, such as Klaus Iohannis.

Rather, his beginning of mandate shows a president caught between the high expectations and the reality of constitutional limitations, oscillating between symbolic gestures and notable absences.

The following analysis is an x ​​-ray of the main actions and inactions of President Nicușor Dan, with stakes that exceed this symbolic interval of 100 days and which can announce, in miniature, the direction of the entire mandate.

The first 100 days are not only a political accounting exercise, but a coherence test between promises and facts.

In the case of Nicușor Dan, the balance sheet shows a combination of concrete decisions, delays and controversies, but also a position that raises the question: the direction he chose is a mere adaptation to the mandate constraints or a strategy calculated for the rest of the five years?