[1][2] On 6 December 2024, 48 hours before the second round of the 2024 presidential elections, the elections were annulled by the Romanian Constitutional Court, because of suspected Russian intervention on behalf of independent candidate, Călin Georgescu, who took a shock lead in the first round with 23%.

On 20 December, an investigation was published showing that PNL had seemingly paid for one of the TikTok campaigns.

However, on 10 February, following an initiation of the process to suspend the president in parliament, Iohannis announced that he would resign as head of state.

[9] On 12 February, he officially resigned and Senate president Ilie Bolojan took his position until the elections.

As a result, the following is a list of persons that have explicitly affirmed interest in running or not.