Emil Boc
| Emil Boc | |
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| Mayor of Cluj-Napoca | |
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Assumed office 12 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Radu Moisin |
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In office June 2004 – 22 December 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Gheorghe Funar |
| Succeeded by | Sorin Apostu |
| Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office 22 December 2008 – 6 February 2012 |
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| President | Traian Băsescu |
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Dan Nica Béla Markó |
| Preceded by | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
| Succeeded by | Cătălin Predoiu (Acting) |
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Minister of Education, Research and Innovation Acting |
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In office 2 October 2009 – 23 December 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Ecaterina Andronescu |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Funeriu |
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6 September 1966 Răchiţele, Romania (now Mărgău) |
| Political party | National Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Oana Boc |
| Website | Official website |
Emil Boc (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈmil ˈbok]; born 6 September 1966) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in June 2004. Boc was also the president of the Democratic Liberal Party, which proposed and supported him as Prime Minister in late 2008, from December 2004 until June 2012. On 13 October 2009, his cabinet fell after losing a motion of no confidence in Parliament. He was acting as the head of acting cabinet until a new Prime Minister and cabinet were confirmed by Parliament. On 17 December 2009, President Traian Băsescu designated him again to form a new government, receiving afterwards the vote of confidence from the Parliament.
Emil was born to Ioan and Ana Boc in the village of Răchițele, commune Mărgău, Cluj County; he has three older brothers (Ioan, Gheorghe, and Traian) and one sister (Dorina). Emil Boc and his wife Oana, a university lecturer whom he married in July 1994, have two daughters, Cezara and Patricia. He and his family belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Boc's entrance into mainstream Romanian politics was in 2003, when he was elected executive president of the Democratic Party; he had been proposed by Traian Băsescu. His original job was to define clearly the Democratic Party's identity so that it would not be confused with the National Liberal Party.
He assumed the position of mayor after the 2004 election victory against the far right nationalist Gheorghe Funar, who had been mayor of Cluj-Napoca for twelve years. In that election, Funar lost out in the first round to both Boc and the Social Democratic Party candidate Ioan Rus. Boc went on to defeat Rus in a run-off election. In the 2008 election, Boc received 76.2% of the vote, avoiding a second round. In 2003 he fell on the set of a television show. In May 2012 Emil Boc announced to run again for mayor of Cluj-Napoca in the June 2012 local elections which he won.
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