Romanian parliament to vote on TVR and public radio leadership

The Romanian parliament will hold a joint plenary session on Tuesday at noon to appoint new members to the boards of TVR and the public radio broadcaster, as well as a Court of Accounts councillor who will serve as president of that institution. The vote follows hearings held in specialised parliamentary committees.

The interim mandates of Sorina Matei at TVR and Răzvan Dincă at public radio are set to expire next week. Both officials took over their institutions on an interim basis in September.

“It is an understanding between parties.”

Nine candidates have been nominated for the TVR board. USR proposed Gabriel Barbu; AUR nominated Sorina Matei and Maria Muntean; PNL put forward Radu Carp and Cristina Ancuța Pocora; PSD nominated Loredana Corchiș and Amalia Nicoleta Matei; UDMR proposed Aliz Timea Anderco; and S.O.S. România backs Marius Loredan Popa.

For the public radio board, candidates include Alexandra Coliban for USR, Maria Țoghină and Sorin Bejan for AUR, Annamaria Bodoczi for UDMR, Diana Ștefana Baciuna for PNL, Adrian Naidin for S.O.S. România, and Răzvan Ioan Dincă, Radu Bogdan Herjeu and Ruxandra Ileana Săraru for PSD.

The appointments cover only the eight seats allocated to parliamentary groups in each 13-member board. Five other seats reserved for the presidency, the government, national minorities and employees of the two institutions are not part of today's vote.

The process repeats a procedure from November 2025, when parliament appointed Adriana Săftoiu and Robert Schwartz as heads of TVR and Radio România respectively under the Bolojan government. AUR challenged that process before the Constitutional Court, arguing parliamentary representation was not respected, and the court agreed.

AUR Senate leader Petrișor Peiu said the appointments in both institutions are the subject of a political agreement between parties, describing it as an understanding among parties rather than a test of any parliamentary majority.