DOC Who is Eugen Tomac, appointed prime minister by president Nicușor Dan

Eugen Tomac, president of the People's Movement Party (PMP), Member of the European Parliament and honorary advisor to President Nicușor Dan for relations with Romanians everywhere, has been nominated for the position of prime minister by the head of state. His career places him at the intersection of the old Băsescu guard, the new presidential project at Cotroceni, and the European liberal family (Renew Europe), which explains why he is perceived as a compromise solution between several political camps.

Origins and Education

Eugen Tomac was born in 1981, in the locality of Babele (Oziornoe), in southern Bessarabia, on the current territory of Ukraine. He comes from a family of Bessarabian Romanians and came to Romania as a scholarship holder of the Romanian state, within programs dedicated to ethnic Romanians from outside the borders. Tomac graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. Between 2000–2004, he was president of the League of Young Romanians Everywhere and coordinated youth projects through the Center for Democratic Education.

Rise under Traian Băsescu

His political career is linked to former president Traian Băsescu, during whose time he held the first positions in the Presidential Administration, in the area of issues concerning Romanians everywhere. Subsequently, he was appointed Secretary of State for Romanians Everywhere within the Government. Eugen Tomac was one of the promoters of political projects associated with Traian Băsescu, including the People's Movement Party. After the end of Băsescu's term, he took over the leadership of the PMP, a party initially created as a political vehicle for the former president, and has remained perceived as his main political successor.

The connection with Băsescu has two dimensions: one personal, of loyalty and continuity, and one of network, Tomac managing a party built around the former president and having access to the hard core of the Băsescu electorate, including in the diaspora. This political legacy explains why, in the current governmental crisis, his name is viewed with both interest and reservations by the major parties, which associate the PMP with the post-Băsescu period and sometimes conflicting coalition experiments.

Role in Brussels and Placement in the European Liberal Family

Since July 2019, Eugen Tomac has been a member of the European Parliament, now in his second term, elected on the USR lists based on an electoral alliance between USR and PMP for the 2024 European elections. In the European legislature, he is part of the Renew Europe group, alongside names like Dan Barna and Vlad Voiculescu, which places him in the pro-European centrist liberal zone, close to the political family of Emmanuel Macron and Dacian Cioloș.

In Romania, the position of MEP has been doubled by the leadership of the PMP, Tomac trying to rebrand the party as part of a modernized European right, although electoral scores have remained below the parliamentary threshold in national elections.

Tomac's Connection with President Nicușor Dan

Nicușor Dan appointed Eugen Tomac, in October 2025, as honorary advisor for relations with Romanians everywhere, according to the Presidential Administration. This appointment confirmed Tomac's entry into the current presidential circle and transformed him into a privileged channel between Cotroceni and the diaspora, especially the Romanian communities in the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, and the Balkans.

According to sources cited by Digi24, HotNews, and other publications, Tomac was the compromise option from Cotroceni for forming a new pro-Western executive, under the conditions in which the president aimed for a majority that would exclude total dependence on the PSD, but would be negotiable with all major parties.

NewsVibe has recently captured a strong increase in Eugen Tomac's visibility in the media space, with hundreds of materials mentioning him in connection with the future Government and negotiations at Cotroceni. In the aggregated reports for the period May 27 – June 2 and for the last seven days, his name has appeared consistently in news about the president's consultations, the PSD's conditions, the PNL and USR's reservations, and the scenarios of "technocratic government" or "compromise government," indicating that Tomac has become the narrative pivot of the governmental crisis.

Tomac's Relationship with the Parties and Internal Positioning

In the current crisis, NewsVibe indicates that the PSD has conditioned its support for the new government and has rejected the option of an executive made up of technocrats and current USR ministers, but has not explicitly excluded Tomac's name, preferring to wait for the government program and the cabinet's composition. Sources cited by Digi24 and other television stations have shown that social-democratic leaders, such as Vasile Dîncu or Lia Olguța Vasilescu, have spoken about Tomac as "a person of good sense", but link any potential support to the content of the program and the structure of the executive.

On the other hand, part of the PNL and USR have rejected the idea of a government in which the PSD would have ministers or a dominant role, which complicates the parliamentary math for a prime minister coming from a non-parliamentary party.

Wealth Profile and Financial Interests

According to an analysis conducted by Economica.net based on wealth declarations, Eugen Tomac has an atypical profile for a leading Romanian politician: he does not own any house in Romania, but has two apartments in Belgium and invests significantly in cryptocurrencies. Specifically, the publication notes that he does not have a residence owned on the territory of Romania, although he owns two plots of land, but has two apartments in Belgium, one in Brussels and one in Charleroi.

As of 2024, Tomac declares investments in cryptocurrencies worth over 25,000 euros, indicating an appetite for risky financial instruments and for the area of digital assets, relatively rarely encountered among top Romanian politicians. He also had to recover over 100,000 euros from the PMP, most likely as reimbursement for loans granted to the party during campaigns, which suggests that he has consistently financed his own political formation.

In terms of movable assets, the same source mentions that he drives, alongside an Audi Q5, a 2020 Dacia Sandero.

"From Băsescu's Man to Nicușor Dan's Man"

Recent profiles in the central press define Eugen Tomac as "Băsescu's man" who has become, in time, an advisor to Nicușor Dan and a possible prime minister, a trajectory that highlights his ability to adapt between political generations. If in the 2000–2010 years he was perceived primarily as an exponent of the Băsescu project, he is now repositioning himself as a representative of a broader pro-Western pole, trying to connect the traditional right electorate to the new technocratic presidentialism.

At Cotroceni, Tomac is described as having a relationship of trust with President Nicușor Dan, who has used him both as a communication vector with the diaspora and as an interlocutor with central European political families for Romania's foreign policy profile. At the same time, his past under Băsescu gives him both capital of experience and vulnerabilities, as it connects him to controversial periods of Romanian politics, which political opponents do not hesitate to exploit.

NewsVibe shows that, in recent days, most of his mentions in the press are strictly related to the "Tomac – prime minister" scenario, with references to the consultations at Cotroceni, discussions with PNL, USR, and PSD leaders, and negotiations for a parliamentary majority of 233 votes. Additionally, NewsVibe reports highlight that the theme of "technocratic government" frequently appears in association with his name, indicating how he is publicly presented: rather as a technocrat with a long political profile than as a classic party leader with his own parliamentary base.

****Synthesis made with the help of a data monitoring flow provided by the media monitoring platform NewsVibe Romania. The analysis, data, and images presented have been enhanced with the help of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools.