PSD mayor of Buzău Constantin Toma poses with PNL leaders Bolojan and Ciucu

Photo with the PNL leaders

Constantin Toma, the PSD mayor of Buzău, posted a photograph on Facebook on Friday, 6 November 2026, showing him with PNL president Ilie Bolojan, a former prime minister, and Ciprian Ciucu, PNL first vice-president and mayor of Bucharest's Sector 6. Bolojan and Ciucu attended a session at the PNL headquarters in Buzău that day. Toma's post read:

“An exchange of experience between one former and two current mayors. Administration for people, for communities. Thank you for the visit, Ilie Bolojan and Ciprian Ciucu!”

Toma described the talks as focused on local management. Because he is in open conflict with the PSD leadership, the visit carries political weight. In April 2026 he had already said he wanted Bolojan to remain prime minister, calling him the right person for difficult times.

Break with the PSD leadership

On 2 June 2026 Toma resigned as president of the PSD municipal organisation in Buzău and as first vice-president of the county organisation. He blamed hostility from the local party leadership and from a part of the PSD councillors on the Buzău municipal council, who had voted against projects he initiated as mayor in the last two council sittings. He tied that hostility to his criticism of the central leadership. He has since said he will not run again under the PSD banner, and that his first option for the 2028 local elections is an independent candidacy. Toma won the last two local elections with 78% and 67% of the vote.

Clashes with party leaders

Toma has attacked the party leadership repeatedly. In May 2025, after Crin Antonescu finished only third in the first round of the 2025 presidential election, he asked former PSD president Marcel Ciolacu to resign and said it was a shame for the party. In May 2026 he said the PSD was in great danger and that the current party president, Sorin Grindeanu, should resign. He has also accused the leadership of unjustifiably bringing down the government the party had been part of. Grindeanu responded that the party also had its own Bolojan supporter:

“We also have our own Bolojan man, Toma from Buzău.”

Earlier allegation about 2024

Toma has also claimed that Paul Stănescu, then PSD general secretary, told local leaders at a meeting at Vila Lac, before the first round of the 2024 presidential election, to gather votes for George Simion. The claim comes from Toma himself. In June 2026 Toma had also warned that a return of the Social Democrats to government would bring the same bad measures, such as unsustainable wage and pension increases paid from the budget.