Following his ad interim presidency of Romania, he delegated his attributions to the vicepresident Doru Ioan Tărăcilă [ro].

The table below gives the state of play before the 2008 election; parties in bold were part of the governing coalition at the end of this legislature.

The number of Justice and Truth Alliance (DA) deputies also increased from 112 to 118, making it the largest formation in parliament as of October 2006.

This changed again in December 2006, leaving the Social Democratic Party with 107 seats and the Justice and Truth Alliance (DA) with 101.

The table below gives the state of play before the 2008 election; parties in bold were part of the governing coalition at the end of this legislature.