Liviu Dragnea
| Liviu Dragnea | |
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| President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 21 December 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Florin Iordache (Interim) |
| President of Social Democratic Party | |
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Assumed office 12 October 2015 Acting: 22 July 2015 – 12 October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Rovana Plumb (Acting) |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office 21 December 2012 – 17 December 2014 |
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| Minister of Regional Development and Administration | |
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In office 21 December 2012 – 15 May 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Victor Ponta |
| Preceded by | Eduard Hellvig |
| Succeeded by | Sevil Shhaideh |
| Minister of Administration and Interior | |
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In office 20 January 2009 – 2 February 2009 |
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| Premier | Emil Boc |
| Preceded by | Gabriel Oprea |
| Succeeded by | Dan Nica |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Liviu Nicolae Dragnea October 28, 1962 Gratia, Teleorman County |
| Political party |
Democratic Party (1996–2000) Social Democratic Party (2000–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Bombonica Dragnea (Divorced 2015) |
| Alma mater |
Carol I National Defence University Ecological University of Bucharest Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest |
Liviu Nicolae Dragnea (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈlivju nikoˈla.e ˈdraɡne̯a]; born October 28, 1962) is a Romanian engineer and politician. The leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and a former member of the Democratic Party (PD), he was Minister of Administration and Interior in the Emil Boc cabinet in January–February 2009. He has represented Teleorman County in the Chamber of Deputies since December 2012, when he also became deputy prime minister and Minister of Administration and Regional Development. He resigned from the cabinet in May 2015, following a conviction in a case involving electoral fraud, for which he received a two-year suspended sentence in April 2016. Following the December 2016 parliamentary election, he became President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Dragnea was born in Gratia, Teleorman County, and after completing secondary studies at Unirea Mathematics-Physics High School in Turnu Măgurele in 1981, enrolled at the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. He graduated from the Transport faculty in 1987. He also studied at the Public Administration School of the Italian Ministry of the Interior (1997), the Faculty of Management and Public Administration at the Ecological University of Bucharest (2003) and the Carol I National Defence University (2004). Dragnea's political career began in 1996, when he was elected a city councilor in Turnu Măgurele. From 1996 to 2000, while Dragnea was a member of the PD, he served as prefect of Teleorman County; he then switched to the PSD, which won the 2000 election. In 2000, he became president of the Teleorman County Council, being re-elected in 2004, 2008 and 2012. He is a member of the PSD's permanent national bureau and of the party's Teleorman County chapter. In 2006, he was elected party vice president for state reform and decentralisation (suspending himself from the position after the failure of that year's presidential impeachment referendum), and he led the PSD's campaign at the 2007 European Parliament election. Following the 2008 parliamentary election, for which he helped run the campaign, he was named coordinator of PSD ministers in the Boc cabinet, charged with maintaining links between ministers and the party leadership.
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