[3] After the Constitutional Court's validation, the results were sent for publication to the Official Journal of Romania (Monitorul Oficial al României).

Ludovic Orban, the president of the PNL, reconfirmed the party's support for Iohannis after the elections.

[6] On 11 March 2018, the National Council of PNL formally endorsed Klaus Iohannis for a new term as president.

[7] Liviu Pleșoianu, a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since 2016 for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), declared his candidacy on 23 July 2017.

[8] Liviu Dragnea, President of the Chamber of Deputies since 2016,[9][10] and Gabriela Firea, Mayor of Bucharest since 2016, are thought to be other potential PSD candidates.

[11] However, both have refuted these media speculations, Firea stating she wants to finish her term as mayor, while Liviu Dragnea rejected the idea and stated he and the PSD concentrate on the governing program and the parliamentary agenda, as Dragnea is President of the Chamber of Deputies.

[16] However he subsequently stated that he would assume any responsibility that his recently founded political party (PLUS) would bestow upon him, not excluding the presidency.

[citation needed] Many voices inside ALDE suggested that Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, the party leader and former President of the Senate, should be the proposal of the PSD–ALDE coalition for the upcoming election and asked for PSD support in this regard.

[24] Bruynseels has set her platform on taking on the broken political system in Romania that she argues is working against the interests of its citizens.

At the time of these elections, the party was controlled from behind the scenes by Romanian mogul and former longtime Securitatea collaborator Dan Voiculescu.

Soon after the story sparked, he declassified his wife's annual income and changed his assets statement.

[203] According to a media investigation, Dan Barna was allegedly involved in a financial scheme during his entrepreneurship time.

[204] Media released recordings of conversations that the candidate Ramona Bruynseels had with her staff, regarding allegedly dubious acts committed with her campaign funds by Dan Voiculescu, the informal leader of the party that supports her candidacy.

[207] The candidate Viorel Cataramă was reported as a former informer of the infamous Securitate (Communist Romania's intelligence service).

Later on, he mentioned in the documents filed at the Electoral Bureau that he only graduated high-school and did not pursued any university studies.

[211] For the first time in the history of democratic elections in Romania, the first two contenders did not participate in any electoral debate organised between them or together with other candidates.

According to Romanian law, the candidates that achieved less than 3% (highlighted in red, in the table below) are not entitled to public compensations.

One candidate, Sebastian Popescu, claimed in his financial filing that he and his team did not spend any funds, saying that he used only the online environment for his campaign and no paid ads.

Incumbent president Klaus Iohannis, of the ruling National Liberal Party (PNL) led the field with 37.8 percent, with former Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) finishing second with 22.26 percent.

Because no candidate obtained the support of more than 50% of registered voters,[239] the second round was held two weeks later, on 24 November 2019, between Iohannis and Dăncilă.