Dan Barna

Barna announced his intention to run in the 2019 Romanian presidential election on 1 July 2019. His candidacy attracted controversy due to him not complying with the legal requirements regarding the mention of a candidate's first-degree relatives income, in the public declaration of assets (document required in a candidate's file, while registering at the electoral board). He stated that his wife's income - who was at the time employed at Petrom - was "classified". Soon after the story sparked, he declassified his wife's annual income and changed his assets statement.

In May 2016, he began working for the then Prime Minister of Romania Dacian Cioloș as Secretary of State with the Ministry of European Funds. He then joined the Save Romania Union, a centre-right political party, where he was elected a deputy in Romania's parliament in December 2016, and president of the party in October 2017.

Dan Barna (born 10 July, 1975) is a Romanian politician and lawyer, the president of the Save Romania Union since October 2017. He was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2016.

Barna was born in Sibiu on 10 July 1975. He graduated from the law school at the University of Bucharest in 1998 and obtained a master's degree in project management from Politehnica University of Bucharest in 2003. After working as a lawyer, he completed a course financed by the European Commission, and became a consultant for EU funds. A consultancy company he founded with a colleague led him to implement a number of projects financed from the European Social Fund. According to a media investigation, he was allegedly involved in a financial scheme during his entrepreneurship time, allegations which he rejected.