Grindeanu is the Social Democratic Party’s second nomination for the prime minister position, after Iohannis rejected the party’s first option, Sevil Shhaideh.
The Social Democratic Party won the parliamentary election held on December 11 with more than 45% of the vote and has a comfortable majority in both chambers of Parliament together with its allied party ALDE.
Grindeanu, 43, was deputy mayor of the city of Timisoara, then served as telecommunications minister in 2014-2015 in the Cabinet of Victor Ponta, and most recently was head of the Timis county council.