Decebal Traian Remeș
| Decebal Traian Remeş | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 23 September 1998 – 28 December 2000 |
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| President | Emil Constantinescu |
| Prime Minister |
Radu Vasile Mugur Isărescu |
| Preceded by | Daniel Dăianu |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Tănăsescu |
| Minister of Agriculture, and Rural Development | |
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In office 4 April 2007 – 11 October 2007 |
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| President | Traian Băsescu |
| Prime Minister | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
| Preceded by | Dan Motreanu |
| Succeeded by | Dacian Cioloş |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 June 1949 Băseşti, Maramureş County |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | National Liberal Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Steliana Remeş |
| Occupation | economist |
Decebal Traian Remeş (born 26 June 1949) is a Romanian economist and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Maramureş County from 1996 to 2000. In the Radu Vasile and Mugur Isărescu cabinets, he served as Finance Minister from 1998 to 2000, while in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet, he was Minister of Agriculture during 2007.
Born in Băseşti, Maramureş County, he graduated from the Economic Studies Faculty of the University of Iaşi in 1971. From that year until 1978, he was an economist at an electronics factory in Săcele, and from 1973 to 1978, he taught as assistant professor at the University of Braşov. From 1978 to 1980, he was an inspector at a firm in his native county, followed by a position as chief accountant at a railway parts manufacturer there, from 1980 to 1990. Following the 1989 Revolution, he was economic director and then director of a Baia Mare firm. From 1995 to 1996, he headed a bank in that city. He has eleven published articles about finance and accounting in an economic magazine.
Joining the PNL in 1991, he was vice president of its Maramureş County chapter from 1992 to 1993 and president from 1993 to 1996. His first elective office came in 1992-1995, when he was vice president and then president of the Maramureş County Council.Elected to the Chamber in 1996 on the lists of the victorious Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR), he served a four-year term there, sitting on the budget, finance and banking committee, including as president from 1997 to 1998. During this period, he was named Finance Minister in September 1998, following the dismissal of Daniel Dăianu, serving in the Vasile and Isărescu cabinets until December 2000, when the CDR lost power following an election. As minister, he had to deal with the fallout from the 1998 Russian financial crisis, which threatened to bankrupt Romania. During the summer of 2000, he submitted his resignation as minister due to the PNL's intention to form a left-wing alliance at the forthcoming elections; Isărescu rejected this, but he nonetheless left the PNL due to a perceived leftward shift in policy, to the party's nomination of Teodor Stolojan and not Isărescu to contest the upcoming presidential election, and to a rivalry with leading party figure Valeriu Stoica.
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