{"id":7766,"date":"2025-11-18T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:07:38","slug":"romanian-presidential-adviser-ludovic-orban-leaves-post-after-six-weeks-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7766","title":{"rendered":"Romanian presidential adviser Ludovic Orban leaves post after six weeks in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential adviser <strong>Ludovic Orban<\/strong> is leaving his position after just six weeks in office, following a mutual agreement with president Nicu\u0219or Dan to end their collaboration, the Presidential Administration announced on Tuesday, November 18, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/agerpres.ro\/politic\/2025\/11\/18\/ludovic-orban-pleaca-de-la-cotroceni-administratia-prezidentiala-decizia-a-fost-luata-in-termeni-ami--1503893\" target=\"_blank\">Agerpres<\/a>. Orban, a former prime minister, was appointed in early October to lead the Internal Policy Department within the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The institution reportedly said the decision was made \u201con amicable terms,\u201d noting that the president thanked Ludovic Orban for his work and wished him success in future projects.<\/p>\n<p>No official reason was provided for Orban\u2019s early departure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biziday.ro\/339091-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biziday.ro<\/a> noted, his exit comes shortly after he publicly criticized the Save Romania Union (USR) party for what he described as the \u201cabusive\u201d use of president Nicu\u0219or Dan\u2019s image in the campaign for the upcoming Bucharest mayoral election, warning it could alienate the president\u2019s supporters. Although Dan attended the campaign launch of USR candidate C\u0103t\u0103lin Drul\u0103, Orban said this did not imply political involvement from the president.<\/p>\n<p>A former leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Ludovic Orban previously supported Nicu\u0219or Dan\u2019s 2020 mayoral bid, helping secure joint backing from PNL and USR at the time. He also ran for president in 2024 but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/ludovic-orban-out-presidential-race-nov-2024\" target=\"_blank\">withdrew from the race<\/a> in favor of former USR leader Elena Lasconi.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em>Inquam Photos \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquamphotos.com\/users\/octavganea\">Octav\u00a0Ganea<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential adviser Ludovic Orban is leaving his position after just six weeks in office, following a mutual agreement with president Nicu\u0219or Dan to end their collaboration, the Presidential Administration announced on Tuesday, November 18, as reported by Agerpres. Orban, a former prime minister, was appointed in early October to lead the Internal Policy Department within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}