Anca Alexandrescu is one of the candidates ranked first in the polls for the Capital City Hall, and the support of the AUR party can influence her chances.
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Anca Alexandrescu is the moderator of the show “Behind the scenes of the parallel state”, broadcast by the television channel Realitatea PLUS, a position from which in recent months she has asserted herself as a fierce opponent of the Power and of President Nicușor Dan. In the context of the canceled presidential elections last year and the presidential elections at the beginning of the year, the show exclusively broadcast interviews with the former candidate Călin Georgescu.
Connections with the political world
The role of moderator on Reality TV propelled her into public life, but few know today that her connection to the political world is an older one. Among other things, she was Adrian Năstase’s adviser at the beginning of the 2000s, then she joined the team of the former general mayor Sorin Oprescu. He was at Palatul Victoria in Victor Ponta’s team, but later he ended up in Liviu Dragnea’s team.
In 2019, she was dismissed by the former prime minister Viorica Dăncilă, in turn, from the position of advisor to the Government and from the position of coordinator of the PSD communication team. At that time she was known as the “cerberul” of the Government, the adviser imposed by the former head of PSD Liviu Dragnea to stop any thought of rebellion of the former governance. She also took care of the image of the former general mayor, Sorin Oprescu. Also, after the fall of the Ponta Government, Anca Alexandrescu became the head of communication for the KazMunayGas group.
Anca Alexandrescu is the daughter of the journalist Horia Alexandrescu, a strong supporter of Ion Iliescu in the 90s. She was married to Dan Andronic, the patron of EVZ.
Training and Experience
Anca Alexandrescu graduated from the Higher School of Journalism and was the editor of Evenimentul Zilei and Ziua Newspaper.
According to the page on Linkedin, he also has a law degree, acquired at the Ecological University of Bucharest and 3 master’s degrees at SNSPA: radio, television and digital communication (2001-2002), political science (2001-2002), communication and media studies (1991-2001). The last job listed here is that of a counselor at the Chamber of Deputies.
According to a CV published in 2019, his first job was at Evenimentul Zilei, in 1993. Three years later, in 1995, he became spokesperson for the electoral campaign in the local elections of the PDSR (Social Democratic Party of Romania) and director of the PDSR media monitoring department in the general elections. Later, in 1997, he founded the Monitoring Media Media Monitoring Agency. It was also then that he became the editor-in-chief – founder of the Ziua USA weekly. The connection with the press ends in 2004, when he becomes state adviser on communication issues at the prime minister’s chancellery.
According to Linkedin, between 2015-2016 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Romanian Counter-Guarantee Fund, of the Romanian Optical Enterprise and a member of the Romarm Council.
wealth
According to an analysis published by Bugetul.ro on March 28, 2025, Anca Alexandrescu earns over 5,700 lei monthly from collaborations with Realitatea Media SA and Graffiti Red SRL, an advertising agency. For the show “Coulisele Statului Paralel”, broadcast on Realitatea Plus, the producer receives a gross salary of 3,700 lei, i.e. approximately 2,400 lei net, and from Graffiti Red she receives 5,128 lei gross (approximately 3,300 lei net).
Between 2016 and 2017 he earned around 10,000 euros per month from KazMunaiGaz. During the period in which he coordinated PSD communication, he collected 110,000 lei from the legislature, 20,000 lei from the Romanian Counter-Guarantee Fund, 23,000 lei net from IOR SA and 7,000 lei from Romarm, both state companies.
The wealth declaration shows that Alexandrescu was involved in several simultaneous collaborations with state entities during the PSD government.
Chances in the race for the Capital City Hall
Since August 31, Avangarde (polling house led by sociologist Marius Pieleanu) published a study in which Anca Alexandrescu had 18% in the intention to vote for Capital, being 2 percent away from the last candidate of the coalition parties, in 4th place, after the 3.
In all polls, Alexandrescu is placed right behind the 3 candidates. Most recently, a survey carried out in October 2025 by Novel Research (a company founded in 2007 and owned by two Romanians, Marian Marcu and Lăcrămioara Bîrlică, according to Ziarului Financiar) for PNL shows that Anca Alexandrescu would be voted for by 15% of Bucharesters who expressed an option, 3.7% away from the last placed candidate of the coalition.
