Recently a presidential election took place in Romania. In the first round, the Prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party Victor Ponta won with 40% of the votes, whilst Klaus Iohannis, leader of the Liberal National Party got 30% of preferences. The situation changed at the run-off: also after the protest on how Ponta's government organized the elections and in particular the Diaspora voting: Iohannis won with 54.5%. 


Klaus Iohannis focused his campaign on judicial independence and fiscal relaxation, offering a more liberal proposal against Ponta government, criticized also abroad for the corruption of the political system. He also built a very good reputation during the long period as major of Sibiu, in Transylvania Region, today one of the most touristic place in Romania and former European Capital of Culture (in 2007).

The figure of Klaus Iohannis is extremely interesting for two main reasons. First, he is Lutheran in a Country where the 86% of people are Orthodoxies (around 17 millions). Secondly, he is part of the Transylvanian Saxons, the German minority that is composed by 36 thousands persons.

In every Country the relation with minorities is not easy and in Romania it is well known the problem with the Hungarian minority, that set up a group of 1.2 million of people. The idea that an exponent of two minorities can become President of its State is a remarkable lesson of civilization and modernity, especially for a Country often considered low civil-minded.

Of course, the judgment will be given on the actions and on the results that the new President will get in the next five years. On some newspapers it came out the comparison with the election of Barak Obama: it is unlikely, but for sure the Obama lesson is that we have always wait the results got, before evaluate a politician. Nevertheless, elections like that can be considered not just interesting, but somehow, historical.