List of presidents of Romania by time in office

Klaus Iohannis is the current President of Romania, since 21 December 2014 (photographed here in March 2015). Total time spent in office since the beginning of his first mandate: 9 years, 338 days.

This is a list of presidents of Romania by time in office. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the time periods would be one day greater.

The political party column in the table below denotes the political party or political alliance that sustained/supported their candidacy, as the president is legally forbidden by the Romanian constitution to be a member of any party while still in office. The only exception was Nicolae Ceaușescu, who was president under a different constitution, and who consequently was both a member of the PCR and president of Romania at the same time. Also, Traian Băsescu was the only president suspended/impeached twice to date (once in each of his two mandates, more specifically in 2007 and 2012).

Nº in office	President	Political party		Time in office	Rank
1st	Nicolae Ceaușescu		PCR	15 years, 276 days	1
2nd	Ion Iliescu		FSN/FDSN/PDSR/PSD	10 years, 343 days	2
4th	Traian Băsescu		D.A. (PD/PDL)	10 years, 0 days1	3
5th	Klaus Iohannis		PNL	9 years, 338 days	4
3rd	Emil Constantinescu		CDR (PNȚCD)	4 years, 33 days	5
–	Crin Antonescu (ad interim/acting)		PNL	48 days	–
	Nicolae Văcăroiu (ad interim/acting)		PSD	33 days

Notes:

¹ Suspended/impeached from office for 31 days in 2007, then for a second time in 2012 for 48 days.