Romania’s facebook president | Hertie School of Governance
A contestant in the German “Who You Wants to be a Millionaire?” show, a few days ago, was not certain if someone called Klaus Johannis was President of either Bayern München or the EU member state Romania. His confusion has a chance of being cleared up this week when Chancellor Angela Merkel receives this not so ordinary newcomer to European top politics. Romania’s Klaus Johannis, elected the fifth President of Romania on 16 November 2014, will make his first appearance at an European summit after his visit to Berlin. Mr. Johannis’ rise deserves some attention. Not only was he directly elected by six million Romanians, which grants him, next to the French President Hollande, the second strongest mandate of a head of state in Europe; not only is he the European leader whose Facebook page has 1.5 million fans, a number which enabled him to win elections against a largely hostile media, jumping from only 2.8 million supporters in the first election round. He is also a German-speaking Lutheran, whose anc
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