He also announced his resignation from the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament, arguing that many parties in that family had in recent years ‘shifted to a radical left with which I have no affinities’, and said that he would join the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) as an independent. The Romanian press floated Moisa’s name as a likely Prime Minister of Romania in the run-up to the legislative elections of December 2016. Sorin Moisa has a doctorate in international relations from St Antony's College, Oxford (2017).