Victor Ponta
Victor- Viorel Ponta ( born September 20, 1972 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian politician. He is chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD ), and since May 7, 2012 Prime Minister of Romania.
Life
Ponta studied from 1991 to 1995 Law at the University of Bucharest. In his resume he led until June 2012 to a 2000 obtained Master in International Criminal Law at the University of Catania in Sicily, he had never made pursuant to the University. In 2002, he earned a degree at the Bucharest National Defence University " Carol I". In 2003 he received his doctorate at the University of Bucharest. Pontas doctor father was his PSD party friend and political mentor Adrian Năstase.
Ponta worked from 1995 to 1998 as a prosecutor and from 1996 to 1998 in addition as a lecturer in criminal law at the Romanian- American University. 1998-2001 he was a prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Romania specifically for corruption and money laundering. From 2001 to 2004 Ponta headed in the function of Secretary of State, the Department of the Romanian government control of the social democratic prime minister Adrian Năstase.
He became a member of the PSD in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he led its youth organization. 2004 Ponta was first elected to the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. In the following the parliamentary elections of 2008 formed Cabinet Boc Ponta I was Minister for Relations with Parliament. Ponta held that post until October 2009, when the government broke up and the PSD joined the opposition again.
Ponta was elected in February 2010 at a party congress in a crucial vote by 856 to 781 votes for the by then Acting Chairman of the PSD Mircea Geoană the new chairman of Romania's largest opposition party. After the fall of the government of Mihai Razvan Ungureanu Ponta was asked to form a government on 27 April 2012 by President Băsescu.
On 7 May 2012, the Romanian Parliament by a large majority chose the Social Democrats as prime minister. The Cabinet Ponta I consisted of members of the PSD, the PNL and the PC and was also supported by the PSD cleavage UNPR and the Group of national minorities. The previous government parties PD -L and UDMR were thus in opposition.
In June 2012, Ponta was faced with allegations of plagiarism. According to a report in the science journal Nature had in his dissertation, which has the International Criminal Court on the subject, all text passages from English publications incorporated that had been literally translated into Romanian. At least 85 of 307 pages of the thesis have been detected as plagiarism in the " copy-paste " method. Ponta said he wanted to meet every review, and made his political rival President Traian Basescu as the mastermind responsible for the charges. The National Council for the review of academic titles, diplomas and certificates ( Cnatdcu ) presented the deception, although originally, but was by Eildekret in its composition enlarged so that 25 new members appointed by the Ministry of Education overruled the existing 20 members.
The clashes between President Traian Basescu and Ponta led to impeachment proceedings against the president and to a national crisis in Romania. Ponta has set in Eildekreten the veto power of the Constitutional Court for the impeachment repealed and introduced a simple majority in the referendum. The Romanian Parliament decided on 6 July 2012 with the majority of the government to suspend President Basescu for alleged excesses of. The impeachment should be confirmed on July 29, 2012 in a referendum, but failed due to a too low voter turnout. After these steps, which were seen by critics as an attempt pontas to obtain the independent judiciary under his control, the European Union stepped in and called the Prime Minister by threatening to suspend EU rights for Romania, to order. Ponta then said in mid-July 2012, a series of measures to allow international confidence in the rule of law in Romania is to be restored. At the same time called Ponta EU criticism of his government as " fascist propaganda ".
On December 9, 2012 pontas Social Liberal Union ( USL ) won the parliamentary elections. After counting more than 80 percent of the votes were cast on pontas party nearly 59 percent of the vote. Since 19 December 2012, the Cabinet Ponta II, the second government formed by Victor Ponta, in office.
Private
Ponta is married in second marriage with the MEPs Daciana Octavia Sârbu and the couple have a daughter. From his first marriage Ponta has another son.