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Klaus Iohannis
Klaus Werner Iohannis (Romanian: [ˈkla.us
joˈhanis]; German: [ˈklaʊs joˈhanɪs]; born 13 June Klaus Iohannis
1959) is a Romanian politician, physicist, and
former teacher who served as the fifth president
of Romania from 2014 until his resignation in
2025.[1] Prior to entering national politics,
Iohannis was a physics teacher at the Samuel von
Brukenthal National College in his native Sibiu
where he eventually served as mayor from 2000
to 2014 before ascending to the presidency.

Iohannis was first elected the mayor of the

Romanian town of Sibiu in 2000, on behalf of the
Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania
(FDGR/DFDR). Although the Transylvanian
Saxon population of Sibiu had declined to a tiny
minority by the early 2000s, he won a surprise
victory and was re-elected by landslides in 2004,
Iohannis in 2024
2008, and 2012. He is credited with turning his
home town into one of Romania's most popular 5th President of Romania
tourist destinations. Sibiu was named the In office
European Capital of Culture in 2007 alongside 21 December 2014 – 12 February 2025
Luxembourg City. Prime Minister See list

In October 2009, four of the five political groups Victor Ponta

in the Parliament of Romania, excluding the Gabriel Oprea (acting)
Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) of then President Sorin Cîmpeanu (acting)
Traian Băsescu, proposed Iohannis as a candidate Dacian Cioloș
for the office of Prime Minister of Romania; Sorin Grindeanu
however, Băsescu refused to nominate him, Mihai Tudose
despite Parliament's adoption of a declaration Mihai Fifor (acting)
supporting his candidacy.[2] He was again the Viorica Dăncilă
candidate for Prime Minister of the PNL and the Ludovic Orban
PSD in the elections in the same year.[3] In Nicolae Ciucă (acting)
Florin Cîțu
February 2013, he became a member of the
Nicolae Ciucă
National Liberal Party (PNL), accepting an
Cătălin Predoiu (acting)
invitation from then liberal leader Crin
Marcel Ciolacu
Antonescu, and was immediately elected the
party's first vice-president, eventually becoming Preceded by Traian Băsescu
the PNL president during the following year. Succeeded by Ilie Bolojan (acting)
Iohannis became the president of the National Nicușor Dan
Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014, after previously Mayor of Sibiu

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serving as the leader of the Democratic Forum of In office

Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) between 30 June 2000 – 2 December 2014
2002 and 2013. He was elected president in that Preceded by Dan Condurat
year's election, and then subsequently re-elected
Succeeded by Astrid Fodor
by a landslide in 2019.
Leader of the National Liberal Party
Iohannis's second term was marked by In office
democratic backsliding[4] as well as a slight shift 28 June 2014 – 18 December 2014
towards illiberalism[5] and a more Preceded by Crin Antonescu
authoritarian [6] style of government, especially
Succeeded by Alina Gorghiu
after the 2021 political crisis and the formation of
Vasile Blaga
the National Coalition for Romania (CNR).[7] He
Leader of the Democratic Forum of
faced allegations of suppression of freedom of
Germans in Romania
speech and press freedom.[8][9] Furthermore, his
In office
approval ratings declined from April 2021
2002–2013
onwards as the electorate showed increasing
disapproval of his political behaviour, favouring Preceded by Eberhard Wolfgang Wittstock
the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and rebuffing Succeeded by Paul-Jürgen Porr
his former political allies (albeit several of them Personal details
being solely conjunctural in the past) in the
Born Klaus Werner Iohannis
process. A survey from June 2023 showed that
13 June 1959
over 90% of Romanians did not trust Iohannis,
Sibiu, Romania
with only 8% having a positive opinion on him.[10]
In 2023, the Economist Democracy Index ranked Political party Independent (since 2014)
Romania last in the European Union (EU) in Other political Democratic Forum of
terms of democracy,[11][12] even behind Viktor affiliations Germans in Romania (1990–
Orbán's Hungary.[13][14][15][16][17] His term was 2013)
extended due to the annulment of the 2024 National Liberal Party (2013–
presidential election, but he resigned in February 2014)
2025. Spouse Carmen Lăzurcă (m. 1989)
Education Babeș-Bolyai University (BSc)
Ideologically a conservative,[18][19][20][21]
Iohannis is the first Romanian president Signature
belonging to an ethnic minority, as he is a
Transylvanian Saxon, part of Romania's German
minority, which settled in Transylvania from the
High Middle Ages onward.[22]

Early life and professional career

Born in the old city centre of Sibiu to a Transylvanian Saxon family, Klaus Iohannis is the eldest
child of Gustav Heinz and Susanne Johannis. He has a younger sister, Krista Johannis (born
1964).[23] His father worked as a technician at a state-owned company, while his mother was a
nurse.[24] Both his parents as well as his sister emigrated from their native Sibiu/Hermannstadt
to Würzburg, Bavaria in Germany in 1992, acquiring citizenship there under the right of return
granted by the German nationality law,[25][26] as most other Transylvanian Saxons after the fall
of the Iron Curtain. However, he chose to live and work in Romania.[27]

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After graduating from the Faculty of Physics of the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-
Napoca in 1983, Iohannis worked as a high school physics teacher at various schools and
colleges in his native Sibiu, including, from 1989 to 1997, at the Samuel von Brukenthal
National College, the oldest German-speaking school in Romania. From 1997 to 1999, he was
Deputy General School Inspector of Sibiu County, and from 1999 until his election as mayor in
2000, he was the General School Inspector, head of public schools in the county.

Political career
He joined the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) in 1990, and served as
a member of its board of education in Transylvania from 1997, and a member of the local party
board in Sibiu from 1998. In 2001, he was elected President of the Democratic Forum of
Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR), succeeding former president Eberhard Wolfgang
Wittstock.

Mayor of Sibiu
In 2000, the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania in
Sibiu (FDGS), the local chapter of the Democratic Forum of
Germans (FDGR/DFDR), decided to back him as a candidate
for mayor. While initially not wanting anything else than to
represent the forum through a local candidate and to obtain a
certain degree of local political visibility at that time, the
leadership of FDGR/DFDR was surprised for his subsequent
victory.

Despite the fact that Sibiu's German minority (represented,

more specifically, by Transylvanian Saxons) had shrunken to a
mere 1.6%, Iohannis was elected with 69.18% of the votes and
has won three re-elections in a row, getting some of the largest
electoral scores in the country: 88.69% of the vote in 2004,[28] Iohannis as Mayor of Sibiu in
and 83.26% in 2008.[29] Consequently, he became the third May 2005
ethnic German mayor of a Romanian city since Albert Dörr [30]

and Hans Jung (who briefly served in 1941 in Timișoara), the

former who had also served in Sibiu from 1906/07 to 1918 (the first was Otto Helmut
Mayerhoffer, who served as elected mayor of the town of Roman in Neamț County, between
1992 and 1996).[31]

Throughout his tenure as mayor, he has worked to restore the town's infrastructure and to
tighten the local administration. Iohannis is also widely credited with turning his hometown
into one of Romania's most popular tourist destinations thanks to the extensive renovation of
the old downtown.[32] During his first term, Iohannis worked with a town council which was
formed by PDSR/PSD, FDGR/DFDR, PD, CDR, and PRM.[33] Since 2004, during his second
and third terms, his own party, FDGR/DFDR, had the majority. Between 2008 and 2012,
FDGR/DFDR had 14 out of 23 councillors, PDL 4, PSD 3, and PNL only 2.[34]

Iohannis established contacts with foreign officials and investors. Sibiu was declared the

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European Capital of Culture of 2007, along with Luxembourg (the bearer of the distinction in
1995).[35] Luxembourg chose to share this honourable status with Sibiu due to the fact that
many of the Transylvanian Saxons emigrated in the 12th century to Transylvania from the area
where Luxembourg is today.[36] Sibiu which was mainly built by the Transylvanian Saxons as
early as the Middle Ages, was for many centuries the cultural centre of the German ethnic group
in Transylvania, and was a predominantly German-speaking town until the mid 20th century.
Subsequently, many Germans left the town after World War II, and especially in 1990, within
months of the fall of the Iron Curtain.

On 7 November 2005, Iohannis was nominated as the "Personality of the Year for a European
Romania" (Romanian: Personalitatea anului pentru o Românie europeană) by the Eurolink –
House of Europe organisation.[37]

Candidacy for Prime Minister, with PSD support

On 14 October 2009, the leaders of the opposition parliamentary groups (the National Liberal
Party (PNL), the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in
Romania (UMR), the Conservative Party (PC) led by Dan Voiculescu, and the group of smaller
ethnic minorities), proposed Iohannis as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister, after the
government of PM Emil Boc fell a day before as a result of a motion of no confidence in the
Parliament. Coming from outside the national-level politics of Romania, Iohannis had an image
of an independent politician,[38] although his party (i.e. the FDGR/DFDR) consistently allied
itself with, and Iohannis campaigned in the prior European Parliament elections for, the
National Liberals (PNL).

Subsequently, the PNL, PSD, UDMR, and the small ethnic minorities group in the Parliament
presented Iohannis as their common candidate for Prime Minister of an interim government.
[39] On 14 October, Iohannis confirmed acceptance of his candidacy. However, on 15 October,

President Traian Băsescu nominated Lucian Croitoru, a top Romanian economist, as Prime
Minister, and charged the latter with forming the country's next government.

After the second round of negotiations, a day before Croitoru's nomination, Băsescu noted:
"Some parties have proposed Klaus Iohannis. I would like you to know that I have not rejected
the possibility for him to become Prime Minister, while my options would rather envisage other
[national unity government] solutions. But I have rejected such a proposal because it comes
from PSD or another party [PNL]", referring to the alleged legal constraint of only considering a
proposal presented by the largest parliamentary faction, at the time the Liberal Democratic
Party (PDL), a constraint disputed by the other parties, along with insisting that given the
financial and economic crisis at that time, a PM needs to have experience in that field.[40][41]
The opposition criticised the President for not designating Iohannis. Social Democrat leader
Mircea Geoană accused Băsescu of trying to influence the upcoming presidential elections by
having them organised by a sympathetic government.[42][43] Crin Antonescu, the leader of the
National Liberals, vowed his party would derail other nominations but Iohannis's.[42] After the
nomination of Croitoru, Antonescu, a candidate in the presidential election, stated that he
would nominate Iohannis as prime minister if elected president.[44] Three days later, on 18
October, Geoană suggested Antonescu was trying to use Iohannis as an "electoral agent" for
Antonescu's bid for president. In response, Antonescu told the press that Iohannis "is not the
type of person that would let himself be used".[45] Geoană and PSD leadership has held a second

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meeting with Iohannis in Bucharest in the evening of 18 October. UDMR, which the previous
day announced it would also attend, declared in the morning that all their leaders were not in
the city. PNL was present at the meeting with lower level representatives, after Antonescu
announced in the morning that he was campaigning in Cluj[46] On 21 October the Parliament
adopted with 252 votes in favour (PSD, PNL, UDMR, and minorities groups) and 2 against a
declaration requesting the President to nominate Iohannis as Prime Minister.[47][48]

In the National Liberal Party (PNL)

On 20 February 2013, Iohannis joined the PNL, announcing this during a press conference with
Crin Antonescu. At a PNL extraordinary congress, he was elected First Vice President of the
Party. In the meeting of 28 June 2014, he was elected President of the PNL with 95% of the
votes.

Candidacy for the President of Romania

In 2009, Iohannis had stated that he might possibly run for the
office of President of Romania, although not in that year.[49] In
addition, former Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu also
stated on 27 October 2009 and again on 23 April 2010 that he
would like to see Iohannis become either Prime Minister or
President of Romania sometime in the future.[50]
Iohannis and his PSD opponent
PNL and PDL started in the summer of 2014 procedures to (and former USL ally) Victor
strengthen the political right. The two parties will eventually Ponta at a TV debate on
merge under the name PNL, but went for elections in an Realitatea TV, 11 November
2014
alliance: the Christian Liberal Alliance (Romanian: Alianța
Creștin-Liberală). On 11 August the alliance chose Iohannis as
its candidate for the presidential election in November[51] and so he was registered as an official
presidential candidate. In a late August 2014 interview, Iohannis described himself as a politruk
who candidates for the presidency of Romania.[52] He subsequently received 30.37% of the
votes in the first round, finishing second and consequently qualifying for the second round. In
the second round on 16 November he was elected President of Romania with 54.43% of the cast
ballots.

Presidency (2014–2025)
Iohannis took office on 21 December 2014, when
Traian Băsescu's term ended. His presidential Presidential styles of
campaign focused on fighting corruption and on Klaus Iohannis
improving the justice system.[53] Iohannis is also
a supporter of a strongly pro-Western foreign
policy.[54] Regarding the unification of the
Republic of Moldova with Romania, much
Reference Președintele (President)
discussed in the electoral campaign, Iohannis
style
stated that "is something that only Bucharest can
offer and only Chișinău can accept", and this Spoken style Președintele (President)

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"special relationship must be cultivated and Alternative Domnia Sa/Excelența Sa (His

enhanced especially by us [the Romanian state]". style Excellency)
[55][56] Upon taking office, Iohannis suspended

his membership within the National Liberal Party (PNL); the

Romanian constitution does not allow the president to be a
formal member of a political party during his tenure.

A heavily disputed draft law proposed by Nicolae Păun, leader

of the Party of the Roma, regarding the amnesty of some
misdemeanors and the pardoning of certain penalties was
rejected by the Chamber of Deputies at the initiative of
Iohannis and the party he led,[57] after PNL asked the Judiciary Iohannis with Israeli President
Committee 17 times to reject the draft law.[58] Reuven Rivlin in March 2016

The collaboration with socialist Prime Minister Victor Ponta

was praised by both sides at the start of the mandate, but
deteriorated thereafter once with foreign visits of the Head of
the Executive, without informing the President, but especially
with the criminal prosecution of Victor Ponta for 22 alleged
corruption charges, prompting Iohannis to demand his
resignation from the head of the Government.[59] Relations
with Parliament went similarly. Iohannis criticised the U.S. Secretary of State Rex
Parliament for defending MPs by rejecting the requests of the Tillerson and Iohannis before
National Anticorruption Directorate for lifting their immunity, their bilateral meeting at the U.S.
as in the case of PSD senator Dan Șova or Prime Minister Department of State in
Victor Ponta.[60] Regarding the judicial system, Iohannis Washington, D.C., on 9 June
2017
pleads for a sustained fight against corruption. Likewise,
Iohannis expressed dissatisfaction with attempted
amendments to the Penal Code. [61] In the context of foreign
policy, Iohannis and Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland,
created Bucharest Nine during a meeting between both in
Bucharest on 4 November 2015.[62] The Russian annexation of
Ukrainian Crimea and the country's intervention in the east of
Ukraine are the main reason for the creation of the
organisation. It has nine members, Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Iohannis with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel in
Romania and Slovakia.[63][64]
March 2018

As President, Iohannis made it a habit to hold consultations

with parliamentary parties. The first round of consultations, on 12 January 2015, sought a
political agreement among all parties that would ensure, by 2017, a minimum threshold of 2%
of GDP for the Ministry of Defence.[65] The second round of consultations focused on the
legislative priorities of the parliamentary session: voting in diaspora, financing electoral
campaigns and parties, and lifting parliamentary immunity. Because Parliament had not
implemented the commitments made on 28 January, Iohannis organised another series of
consultations on the state of electoral laws[66] and on the rejection of Justice requests for
approval of arresting or prosecuting of MPs. Other meetings between the president and parties
focused on the Big Brother law package and the national defence strategy.[67]

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In February 2016, the National Agency for Fiscal

Administration (ANAF) sent a notice of evacuation of the
headquarters of two TV stations owned by Dan Voiculescu,
sentenced in August 2014 to 10 years imprisonment in a
corruption case with 60 million euros worth of prejudice.[68] In
this context, Iohannis stated that ANAF approach in Antena TV
Group case is "hasty", "inappropriate" and that "freedom of
expression in media can not be suppressed for trivial Iohannis with President of the
administrative reasons".[69] His position was met with a wave European Council Donald Tusk
in May 2019
of criticism from supporters and public figures.[70][71] On the
same note, Iohannis stated that union with Moldova is "a less
serious approach" in the context of the Transnistria conflict, of
differences between Romania and Moldova regarding
economic stability and fighting corruption, and can be
discussed when things are stable in both countries.[72] The
statement sparked indignation among unionists[73] who
accused him of demagogy, considering that during the electoral
campaign of 2014 he expressed a favourable position on the
issue.[74] In March 2018, at the 100th anniversary of the Union Iohannis with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
of Bessarabia with Romania, he was absent from a plenary vote
in May 2022
regarding the issue.[75]

President Iohannis is considered the person primarily

responsible for the 2021 Romanian political crisis,[76][77][78][79]
with 35% of respondents in a November 2021 CURS opinion
poll calling him the main culprit for the crisis.[80] Critics blame
him for excluding the USR from the government during late
2021 and thereby allowing the PSD back to power,[81] as
happened on 25 November 2021, when the National Coalition
for Romania was founded and the Ciucă Cabinet was sworn in. Iohannis with Azerbaijani
[82][83][84] Two months later, Iohannis praised the new
President Ilham Aliyev in
coalition, stating that "the Romanian political class has shown February 2023
democratic maturity".[85] Iohannis was faulted because he had
previously criticised the PSD during the 2017–2019 PSD-ALDE
coalition. At the 2020 legislative elections, he called the
electorate to vote, promising to get rid of the PSD.[86][87] Some
public figures in Romania, who had previously expressed
support for Iohannis, complained of his double standard and
lack of proper governance. These critics include Vladimir
Tismăneanu, Tudor Chirilă, Radu Paraschivescu, Mircea
Cărtărescu, Andrei Oișteanu, Ada Solomon,[88] Marius Iohannis with U.S. President Joe
Manole,[89] Cristian Tudor Popescu,[90] and Gabriel Liiceanu. Biden in May 2024
[91] The coalition's rule has been described as being

authoritarian,[92] illiberal,[93][94] kleptocratic and corrupt.[95]

[96]

Despite the fact that, officially, the President of Romania is not affiliated with any political
party, Iohannis was regarded as the de facto leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL).[97][98]

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On 12 June 2023, according to the protocol of the CNR, Nicolae Ciucă resigned.[99] The next
day, President Iohannis designated Marcel Ciolacu to be the next prime-minister.[100] Ciucă
became the President of the Romanian Senate on 13 June 2023.[101] UDMR also withdrew from
the coalition, after the National Liberals decided to take the Minister of Development, Public
Works and Administration, which was held by UDMR in the Ciucă Cabinet.[102][103] On 15 June
2023, the Parliament of Romania voted through the Ciolacu Cabinet. Iohannis praised the PSD-
PNL coalition again, saying that this new model implemented in Romanian politics, the
government rotation, "has worked very well so far". He also declared that "the fact that today we
are here to formalise the rotation of the prime ministers shows a new level of seriousness of the
coalition".[104] During the late part of Iohannis's presidency, especially during Ciucă's
premiership, the freedom of the press in Romania declined, according to World Press Freedom
Index (from 75.09 in 2021[105] to 69.04 in 2023[106]). Under Ciucă's premiership, Romania
experienced democratic backsliding,[4] with The Economist ranking it last in the European
Union in terms of democracy,[12] even behind Viktor Orbán's Hungary.[13] The Economist 's
Democracy Index also consistently placed Romania behind the African country of Botswana,
which Iohannis had sarcastically lamented in a 2014 presidential campaign interview (at the
time, Romania was 60th to Botswana's 20th) and which prompted him to stress the need to
"consolidate democracy".[107][108]

On 12 March 2024, Iohannis announced his candidacy for the post of Secretary-General of
NATO, promising a "renewal of perspective" for the alliance and citing Romania's "deep
understanding" of the situation created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was expected to
compete against outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte.[109] Iohannis withdrew his
candidacy on 20 June 2024.[110]Following the annulment of the 2024 Romanian presidential
election in December, Iohannis was allowed to stay on as president by the Constitutional Court
until his successor could be elected.[111] However, on 10 February 2025, Iohannis announced his
resignation as President of Romania in order to "not create a divided Romania".[112] This
followed a motion filed by opposition MPs calling for Iohannis's suspension, with his
resignation becoming effective on 12 February 2025.[113] He was succeeded by Senate president
Ilie Bolojan, who served as acting president until the 2025 Romanian presidential election.[114]

International presidential trips

Political positions

Unification of Moldova and Romania

Regarding the unification of Moldova and Romania, Iohannis declared during the 2014
presidential campaign that the unification is something that only Bucharest can provide and
only Chișinău can accept. "If Moldovan citizens want the unification with Romania, then
nobody can stop them", stated Klaus Iohannis.[55] After election, his position mitigated,
stressing that, at the moment, Romania should support Moldova to consolidate its pro-
European path.[115] President Klaus Iohannis said that a possible unification of Romania and
Moldova could be discussed at the moment things are going well and stable in the two countries.
[73][116]

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Székely autonomy
In March 2017, a sub-group of the ethnically Hungarian Székely community in southeastern
Transylvania launched a petition demanding autonomy for their region, arguing for political
and administrative self-rule, their own elected president and flag, as well as the recognition of
Hungarian as an official language next to Romanian.[117] Iohannis, on a visit to the region in
July, cautioned against decentralisation and the creation of regions based on the ethnic origin of
residents.[118] He argued for more and improved cooperation between Romanians and
Hungarians "as the only solution for us" instead, stressing local administrative reforms and
developing the region.[119]

On 28 April 2020, a draft legislation favouring the autonomy of Székely Land, submitted by two
deputies of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) in December
2019,[120] was tacitly adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Parliament of
Romania, in which the Social Democratic Party (PSD) held a plurality of seats and all whilst the
National Liberal Party (PNL) led a minority government. The draft bill was automatically
adopted after it exceeded the 45-day deadline for debate.[121] On 29 April, Iohannis criticised
the draft's adoption in a television speech, stating "as we ... fight the coronavirus pandemic, ...
the PSD ... fights in the secret offices of the parliament to give Transylvania to the Hungarians".
In his speech, he used Hungarian language in a mocking manner: Bună ziua ['good day' in
Romanian], dear Romanians; jó napot kívánok ['good day' in Hungarian], PSD".[121][122][123]
On the same day, the draft was rejected in the Senate, with both PNL's and PSD's senators
voting in favour of the rejection.[124]

The president's speech was met with widespread criticism. Hungarian Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó described the statements of Iohannis as "particularly
uncivilised and suitable for inciting hatred" and asked the Romanian president to show "more
respect to Hungarians".[125] In turn, Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu
called Szijjártó's statements "provocative and inadequate".[126] In a radio interview, Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also reacted to the speech, saying "we have never heard such
remarks from Romania, not even in the worst, most antidemocratic, tumultuous times".[127] The
president's comments were also criticised by members of the Romanian opposition parties PSD
and ALDE, but also by the confidence and supply USR (which has been supporting the PNL
minority government since 2019).[128] Iohannis was fined RON 5,000 by the National Council
for Combating Discrimination (CNCD) for discrimination and ethnicity/nationality-based
violation of the right to dignity.[129]

Romanian minority rights in Ukraine

Iohannis criticised Ukraine's 2017 education law, which makes Ukrainian the only language of
education in state schools, and cancelled his visit to Kyiv in October 2017.[130][131] Iohannis said
that Ukraine's new education law "will drastically limit the access of minorities to education in
their native language. We are deeply hurt by this. We have many Romanians in Ukraine".[131]

Anti-corruption
Iohannis is a supporter of the fight against corruption in Romania. Since coming to power in
November 2014, has sent several messages of support to prosecutors investigating sensitive
cases against politicians accused of corruption. Making one of its important position was on 25

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February 2016 at the annual meeting of the National Anticorruption Directorate: "From year to
year the work of the National Anticorruption Directorate has become more effective as the
number of cases investigated and complexity, as well as final decisions on confiscation and
recovery of property from crime. You are a model of functional institution and created a
performance standard. Through the work and achievements, you've earned the appreciation of
the Romanian citizens who want to live in a just society, in a country without corruption, the
institutions, elect to represent them and those who perform public functions are actually serving
the people. The results obtained by you in fighting corruption, appreciated and beyond
Romania's borders are a guarantee that the process of strengthening democracy and the rule of
law in Romania are on track. I am convinced that we will be increasingly more powerful in
applying the constitutional principle that nobody is above the law and to align our established
practice in countries with democracies that put the citizen at the centere of any policy", Iohannis
stated.[132]

He has rejected demands for the suspension of the head of Romania's National Anticorruption
Directorate (DNA), Laura Codruța Kövesi.[133][134]

LGBT rights
In terms of LGBT rights and recognition of same-sex unions in Romania, Iohannis has not
stated clearly his opinion:[135]

Romanian society is not yet ready for a definite answer. I won't give an answer but as a
president I am willing to open up the issue for discussion. We have to accept that any
minority has rights and that a majority is strong when they protect the minority.

—Iohannis in a 2014 debate with bloggers[136]

However, he is pleading for the acceptance of differences and diversity: "nobody should be
persecuted because they belong to a different group or they are different".[135]

Regarding the initiative to amend Article 48 of the Constitution (prohibition of gay marriage)
started by the Coalition for Family (Romanian: Coaliția pentru Familie), Iohannis reiterated the
concepts of tolerance and accepting one another.[137] "It is wrong to give obedience or walk the
path of religious fanaticism and ultimatum solicitations. I do not believe in them and do not
support them. I believe in tolerance, trust and openness to other", said Iohannis in a press
conference.[138] Thus, Iohannis is the first top official in the country to open the discussion
about same-sex marriages.[139] His reaction was praised by international media, including The
Washington Post,[140][141] while religious and conservative organisations in Romania have
criticised his position on LGBT rights.

Migration
Iohannis has said that migration "has to be controlled" and "it affects Romanian habits" and has
supported stronger external European borders.[142] Iohannis accepted the migration quota set
for his country by the EU, but said he is still opposed to mandatory quotas being set by the
Commission.[143]

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Personal life
Alongside his mother tongue, German, and the language of the majority, the Romanian
language, Iohannis is also fluent in English and can speak French to a certain degree. The
original German spelling of his name is Johannis, but the name was registered by a Romanian
official as Iohannis on his birth certificate[144] and he has used both spellings interchangeably
ever since.[145]

In 1989, he married ethnic Romanian Carmen Lăzurcă, an English teacher at the Gheorghe
Lazăr National College in Sibiu.[146][147] They have no children.

Iohannis is a member of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania, the
German-speaking Lutheran church, mainly of the Transylvanian Saxons, with a lesser presence
in other parts of Romania.[148]

As of 2014, his parents, sister and a niece live in Würzburg.[149]

Iohannis has stated that his family settled in Transylvania in present-day Romania 850 years
ago, more specifically around 1500 in the small town of Cisnădie (German: Heltau), Sibiu
County.[150]

Honours

International and National Awards

2023 – German Civic Award, conferred by the Bad Harzburg Civic Foundation
2023 – Franz Werfel Award for Human Rights, granted by the Centre against Expulsions
in Bonn, the Federal Republic of Germany
2020 – European Charles IV Prize of the Sudeten German Homeland Association, the
Federal Republic of Germany
2020/2021 – Charlemagne Prize, awarded by the City of Aachen, the Federal Republic
of Germany
2020 – The Emperor Otto Prize, awarded by the City of Magdeburg, the Federal
Republic of Germany
2020 – European Prize Coudenhove-Kalergi, European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi
2019 – Medal of Honour (Goldene Ehrennadel), the Democratic Forum of Germans in
Romania, Sibiu
2018 – Franz Josef Strauss award, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Munich, the Federal
Republic of Germany
2017 – Light Unto the Nations award, American Jewish Committee, Washington, D.C.,
United States of America
2017 – Semper Opera Ball Dresden Medal of St. George, the Federal Republic of
Germany
2016 – Hermann Ehlers award, Hermann Ehlers Foundation, Kiel, the Federal Republic
of Germany
2016 – Martin Buber-Plaque, EURIADE Foundation, Kerkrade, the Kingdom of the

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Netherlands
2010 – Friend of the Jewish Communities in Romania Medal of Honour, Sibiu, Romania
2010 – The German Expatriates Association Plaque of Honour

State honorary distinctions

2023 – Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty of the Portuguese Republic
2022 – Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania
2022 – Order of the Three Stars – Commander Grand Cross (1st class) – Republic of
Latvia
2022 – Grand Collar of the State of Palestine
2021 – Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana of the Republic of Estonia
2019 – Emblem of Honour of Romanian Army
2017 – Grand Order of King Tomislav with Sash and Grand Star of the Republic of
Croatia
2016 – Order (First Class) of the White Double Cross of the Slovak Republic
2016 – Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic
2016 – Order of the White Eagle of the Republic of Poland
2016 – Grand Cross (Special Class) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of
Germany
2016 – Order Stara Planina with Ribbon of the Republic of Bulgaria
2016 – Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
2016 – Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
2016 – Collar (First Class) of the Order of Vytautas the Great, the Republic of Lithuania
2016 – Order of the Holy Sepulchre of the Patriarchate of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all
Palestine and Israel
2016 – Order of the Republic of Moldova
2015 – Grand Collar of the Order of the Infante D. Henrique of the Portuguese Republic
2014 – Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2011 – Knight of the National Order for Merit of Romania
2009 – Officer of the Order of the Crown of the Kingdom of Belgium
2009 – Grand Cross Order of Merit, the Republic of Austria
2009 – Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
2008 – Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity of the Italian Republic
2007 – Knight of the National Order of the Star of Romania
2006 – Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Books
Klaus Johannis published three books with a main focus on politics as follows:

2014 – Step by step (Romanian: Pas cu pas, German: Schritt für Schritt,
ISBN 978-606-588-756-5), autobiographical volume and bestseller in the history of
Gaudeamus International Book and Education Fair, detailing his political career as mayor of
his native Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt).[151][152]
2015 – First step (Romanian: Primul pas, German: Erster Schritt, ISBN 978-606-588-831-9),

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a continuation of the volume "Step by step" which was published in 2014. The volume
describes his future plans as president.[153]
2019 – EU.RO – un dialog deschis despre Europa (EU.RO – an open dialog on Europe,
German: Ein offener Dialog über Europa), an introductory and statistical volume on the
European Union (EU)[154]

Electoral history

Local elections (Mayor of Sibiu)

First round Second round

Election Affiliation
Votes Percentage Position Votes Percentage Position

2000 FDGR/DFDR 20,629 33.10% 1st 46,286 69.18% 1st

2004 FDGR/DFDR 73,621 88.69% 1st

2008 FDGR/DFDR 50,107 83.26% 1st

2012 FDGR/DFDR 53,281 77.89% 1st

Presidential elections

First round Second round

Election Affiliation
Votes Percentage Position Votes Percentage Position

ACL
(also
2014 supported 2,881,406 30.37% 2nd 6,288,769 54.43% 1st
by FDGR/
DFDR)

PNL
(also
2019 supported 3,485,292 37.82% 1st 6,509,135 66.09% 1st
by FDGR/
DFDR)

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External links
Official website (http://www.iohannispresedinte.ro/)
Klaus Iohannis (https://www.facebook.com/klausiohannis) on Facebook
Appearances (https://www.c-span.org/person/?108599) on C-SPAN

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