Dan Voiculescu
Dan Voiculescu ( born September 25, 1946 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian politician and businessman. He is currently (2011 ) Honorary Chairman of the Conservative Party ( Partidul Conservator ) and Vice- President of the Romanian Senate.
Biography
Dan Voiculescu grew up in modest circumstances in Bucharest. After his military service, he became in 1970 an employee of the cement company ICE Vitrocim and their foreign trade director.
After the 1989 revolution Voiculescu became the independent contractor; he relied on the holding GRIVCO, which included a barely manageable network of companies. Critics accuse him to have financed these activities with asset of the communist secret Securitate.
In 1991, Dan Voiculescu own party, the Partidul Umanist Român ( Humanist Party of Romania ). This never had serious chances to get on the voters to demand greater importance; However, the simultaneously evolving media empire Voiculescus made them interesting for the larger parties. From its foundation to 2005, Voiculescu was party chairman; since he is the Honorary Chairman. Even after his retirement from the party chairmanship, he is generally regarded as the most authoritative person of the party, the Conservative Party in 2005 ( Partidul Conservator ) renamed itself.
2001 Voiculescu gave a portion of his company from his daughters and devoted himself henceforth mainly politics. Especially on his television channel Antena 1 tries Voiculescu in the opinion of local journalists and foreign observers, to influence political events in Romania.
From 2004 to 2006, dominated by Voiculescu Conservative Party was a member of the bourgeois government of Calin Popescu - Tăriceanu. In December 2006 she left this government after the coalition partners Voiculescu did not want to make the Deputy Prime Minister. This was due to the short time before by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives ( CNSAS ) published findings on the intelligence activities Voiculescus in the era of Nicolae Ceausescu. Voiculescu vehemently denied these spying activities or portrayed them as not relevant. He was a legal case against the allegations. Last instance, however, the Romanian Court of Cassation confirmed the allegations in March 2011.
Since the Romanian suffrage for parliamentary elections sets a five- percent hurdle that Voiculescu pursued for several years, the strategy of creating list compounds with larger parties, in 2004 and 2008 with the Social Democrats. In return, he offers the support of his influential media company in election campaigns. In the parliamentary elections of 2004 and 2008, he managed to move into the Romanian Senate, as its vice-president, he was elected in late 2008.
Voiculescu is an outspoken opponent of President Traian Basescu. 2007 he ran unsuccessfully whose deposition. He is regarded as the organizer of the great, established in early 2011 opposition alliance of Social Democrats, National Liberal and Conservative.
In November 2010, the gray eminence of the opposition conservative party dwarf, the Honorary Chairman Dan Voiculescu was sure that President Traian Basescu would relieved of his duties in the coming year. The current government coalition was " extremely fragile " and could be easily overthrown accordingly, the media mogul said on Monday evening his house Antena 3 "I am sure that there will be soon motions in Parliament, which lead to a new majority. And then there is also a renewed impeachment of the current President of " Voiculescu said.
Because of this fragile majority in parliament Romania had a " huge problem ," said the controversial politician and businessman - it has the effect namely the current economic instability and thus the reluctance of investors who will also stay away " medium to long term ," croaked Voiculescu. It was the only head of state to blame - Băsescu reder louder " nonsense. He should know that the industrial sector can not develop as long as the consumer does not rise ", so the argument of honorary chairman of the Conservatives.
The assets Voiculescus was estimated from the daily Gândul to the equivalent of 180 million euros in October 2010. Taz was in March 2011 to 1.5 billion euros. A lot of it comes from public contracts.