Theodor Stolojan
Theodor Stolojan ( born October 24, 1943 in Targoviste ) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament.
From 1961 to 1966 Stolojan studied in Bucharest economy. He then worked as an economist for six years in a Bucharest factory for refrigeration. In 1972 he moved to the Romanian Ministry of Finance. From 1978 to 1982 he was head of a department there, the foreign exchange managed. In 1988 he became Director of the Department for International Treasury Relations within the Ministry. After the revolution of 1989 Stolojan remained at the Treasury and took from June 1990 to April 1991 under Prime Minister Petre Roman, the Office of Finance. In May 1991, Stolojan president of the National Privatization Agency.
As prime minister, he led from September 1991 to November 1992 in a very difficult economic situation for Romania the Cabinet.
From 1993 to 2000 Stolojan worked at the World Bank.
1996 supported the presidential candidacy of the post-communist Ion Iliescu. In 2000, he returned as an opponent Iliescu back into politics and applied unsuccessfully for the National Liberal Party (PNL ) for the office of President. For the 2004 presidential election, he was the original candidate of the Alliance DA, consisting of the PNL and the PD ( Partidul Democrat, Democratic Party ), but his candidacy retired for health reasons in favor of Basescu chosen later.
After he had failed in an attempt to move the PNL to a merger with the PD and exit the international liberal umbrella organizations, Theodor Stolojan founded in December 2006, together with Valeriu Stoica and other like-minded ex -PNL - politicians Partidul Liberal Democrat ( Liberal Democratic Party ). These merged in December 2007 with the PD for the Democratic- Liberal Party ( Liberal Democrat Partidul, PD -L ), whose deputy was Stolojan.
At the parliamentary elections in November 2008 Stolojan stood as leading candidate of the PD -L and was subsequently nominated by President Traian Basescu for the post of prime minister. After completion of the coalition negotiations with the Social Democratic Party ( PSD), he moved back, however surprising. 2007 Stolojan came for the party he initiated successfully with the necessitated in Romania due to the accession of by-elections to the European Parliament. In the European elections of 2009 he was again elected for the PD -L in the European Parliament, where he became a member of the EPP Group.
He is regarded as a technocrat and relatively independent.