Ludovic Orban, the advisor to President Nicușor Dan on domestic politics. Former Liberal Prime Minister, he supported Nicușor Dan and at the Capital City Hall, and at the May Presidential Election
Ludovic Orban was appointed Monday by President Nicușor Dan counselor on domestic politics. Former prime minister, presidential candidate from November, who were canceled, Ludovic Orban was also a supporter of Nicușor Dan, in 2020, in his race for the City Hall. He also supported Nicușor Dan at the presidential elections in May.
In 1992 Ludovic Orban became a member of the PNL-the young wing (PNL-at), later became PL '93 and was a member of the PL '93 (1993-1997).
He was chosen from this party in the positions of local councilor in the Council of Sector 3 Bucharest (1992-1996) and local councilor in the Council of Sector 1 Bucharest (1996-1997), resigning from the last position in 1997. Between 2004 and 2007 he was deputy mayor in Bucharest.
Ludovic Orban was deputy between 2008 and 2012 and 2012-2016. Between April 2007-December 2008, Ludovic Orban held the position of Minister of Transport in the Government of Călin Popescu-Tariceanu.
Ludovic Orban wanted to be the general mayor of the capital
Ludovic Orban registered, in 2016, in the race for the Capital City Hall, but gave up the candidacy after DNA began his criminal prosecution for committing the crime of using influence in order to obtain undue benefits. He was accused of asking for money for businessman Tiberiu Urdareanu for the election campaign in the local elections in the summer of 2016. Ludovic Orban was definitively acquitted in this file.
Ludovic Orban was involved in several road accidents. The best known is the one from December 2007, on Cotroceni Road, in the Capital. Then he hurt a 14 -year -old teenager, and the girl suffered a contusion on her arm. The second took place in January 2015, when he overturned by car in Sarca, without hurting.
In September 2006, Ludovic Orban acknowledged, in a television show, that his father was employed by the Security, with the rank of captain in reserve, but said he had concluded any collaboration with the Security before he was born.
He supported Klaus Iohannis, but their relationship has cooled down then
Ludovic Orban was a supporter of former President Klaus Iohannis in both election campaigns (2014 and 2019). However, after Orban lost the PNL chief at the 2021 Congress, the relationships between the two have cooled.
“From the present moment between Ludovic Orban and Klaus Iohannis there is no partnership,” said Ludovic Orban at the end of the Congress in which he lost PNL leadership and suggested several times that he lost the party leader because of Klaus Iohannis, who supported his counter -candidate, Florin Cîțu.
Since then, Ludovic Orban has criticized Klaus Iohannis several times in the last years of the president.
“In his last three years of activity, I think Iohannis was concerned about what he will do after finishing the mandate as president and was only concerned to have a quiet life in the mandate of president in the last three and a half years. I have returned against him as he betrayed the right-handed electoral.
The Pandemic scandal: Prime Minister Ludovic Orban photographed smoking in the Government Office
Ludovic Orban was a prime minister on November 4, 2019-7 December 2020.
In May 2020, in the context of the measures taken by the authorities against the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ludovic Orban was at the center of a scandal, after a photo of the online can be observed, along with other ministers in the government he was leading, smoking and consuming alcohol.
“It is a picture of my birthday, after 3 pm that I was with more my colleagues, they surprised me and they came to wish me many years. After they came, I saw that there are plates on the table. I served them with a snack, with a glass of beer. that time Ludovic Orban.
Ludovic Orban, former supporter of Nicușor Dan
In 2020 Nicușor Dan won the elections for the General City Hall of the Capital being supported by USR and PNL (at that time led by Ludovic Orban).
“I am convinced that it is the most suitable candidate for achieving the two fundamental objectives of the PNL: to release Bucharest from the Despotic reign of the PSD and a good government of the capital. PNL makes a sacrifice somewhat supporting a candidate who is not a member of the party. He is a candidate in whom I trust,” Ludovic said.
Ludovic Orban resigned from PNL in 2021, and then created a new party, the force of the right.
At the presidential elections of 2024, later canceled, Orban announced his withdrawal in favor of Elena Lasconi, from USR. At the 2025 elections, the strength of the right and Ludovic Orban supported Nicușor Dan.
Ran for November elections when he retired in favor of Elena Lasconi
At the presidential elections of 2024, later canceled, Orban announced his withdrawal in favor of Elena Lasconi, from USR.
“We made the decision to continue the election campaign, but this campaign is to support the candidate Elena Lasconi,” said Orban during the first presidential debate, organized by Digi24.
At the 2025 elections, the strength of the right and Ludovic Orban supported Nicușor Dan.
“Nicușor Dan makes politics, but he makes politics in a totally different way in the way in which most of the governance parties do politics. He is an honest, open, approachable man, an honest man, a man who has none of the sins that are detected by most of the population of Romania to most politicians, who are in Romania, who are in Romania, who have in Romania, especially in Romania, especially in Romania. Anything, “said Ludovic Orban on that occasion.
