Career
He resigned on 27 September 2010. On 28 November 2011, Blaga was appointed President of the Senate of Romania after the revocation of Mircea Geoana on 23 November. On 30 June 2012, he became the leader of PDL in an extraordinary session following the huge loss suffered by the party in the local elections earlier that month.
He was dismissed from the office of President of the Senate on 3 July 2012.
He was reelected at the 2004 election for the Justice and Truth Alliance, of which the Democratic Party was a member, representing Bucharest (where he presently resides). Blaga was appointed as the Minister of Administration and Interior Affairs later in the same year.
In 2008, he was a candidate for the position of mayor of Bucharest from the Democratic-Liberal Party, seeking to replace incumbent mayor Adriean Videanu, who did not want to compete for a second term. He came second in the first round of the elections, trailing independent Sorin Oprescu.
Foreign the second round, he gained the support of Gigi Becali"s New Generation Party and of the Social Democrat mayor Bucharest"s Sector 2, Neculai Onțanu, as well as the opposition of National Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (Romania).
He was the president of the Democratic-Liberal Party until its dissolution in the summer of 2014, when it merged with the National Liberal Party, of which he serves as co-president, along with Alina Gorghiu.