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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170508-154714 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-new-revolution-the-recent-governmental-crisis-in-romania/ A New Revolution? The Recent Governmental Crisis in Romania Selejan-Gutan, Bianca eng 2015-11-27 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Crisis Corruption Government Populism Presidential Powers Social Movements Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 As of November 2015, Romania faces its most important social, political and constitutional crisis in the last quarter-century. If the 1989 Revolution signified a break with a totalitarian communist regime, the widespread street protests of 2015, which led to the fall of the Government, gave a new message: global dissatisfaction towards the whole political class and institutions marked by serious inefficiency and corruption. The Government's resignation led to an important constitutional crisis: one year before general elections, the country needed a new Government, but there was no clear political majority in Parliament to form one. In these circumstances, the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, has tried a new approach, calling on social movements and appointing a non-political "techocratic" government. Time will tell if the decisions taken were right for Romanian democracy.