Cătălin Drulă

Cătălin Drulă (born 2 May 1981) is a Romanian politician who served as the president of the Save Romania Union (USR) political party, untill his resignation in 2024 (officially since 10 July 2022 onwards and previously acting/ad interim for c. 5 months before), and as an incumbent member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, elected as a deputy for Timiș County at the 2020 Romanian legislative election.

From 23 December 2020, he served as the Minister of Transport in the Cîțu Cabinet, until his resignation registered on 7 September 2021. According to USR MP Emanuel Ungureanu, he could likely be the presidential candidate of USR for the forthcoming 2024 Romanian presidential election.

Since 7 February 2022 onwards, he has been serving as the ad interim president of the USR, as a result of the resignation of Dacian Cioloș.

Following the poor results of the United Right Alliance in the 2024 Romanian local elections and the 2024 European Parliament election in Romania on June 9 2024, he announced his resignation from the leadership of USR.