President Klaus Iohannis congratulated on Monday Hungary's President-elect Tamas Sulyok.
"Congratulations to Tamás Sulyok for the election as President of Hungary. I look forward to working together to the benefit of our people, on the basis of the Strategic Partnership between Romania and Hungary," the Romanian head of state wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
On Monday, Hungary's Parliament elected Constitutional Court chief Tamas Sulyok as the country's new president.
Tamas Sulyok, a 67-year-old jurist who has headed the Constitutional Court since 2016, was sworn in and will take office on March 5. In Hungary the role of the president is largely ceremonial.