Norica Nicolai
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Norica Nicolai MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Romania |
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Assumed office July 2009 |
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| Senator | |
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In office November 2000 – November 2008 Serving with four others |
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| President |
Ion Iliescu Traian Băsescu |
| Prime Minister |
Adrian Năstase Eugen Bejinariu Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
| Constituency | No. 13 Cluj |
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| Born | 27 January 1958 Sinaia, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party |
Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party National Liberal Party Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | www |
Norica Nicolai (born Norica Clinci; January 27, 1958) is a Romanian lawyer and politician. An independent who previously belonged to the National Liberal Party (PNL) and before that the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢ-CD), she was a member of the Romanian Senate for Cluj County from 2000 to 2008, and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. She was at the centre of a conflict between Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu and President Traian Băsescu in early 2008, with the latter rejecting, ultimately successfully, the former's nomination of Nicolai to be Justice Minister.
She is married and has one child.
She was born in Sinaia, and, following secondary studies at the town's George Enescu High School, in 1983 she graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest. From 1983 to 1991, she was a prosecutor at the Olteniţa courthouse, and from 1991 to 1993 was legal adviser to a rural trucking company in Călăraşi. She worked as a lawyer in the same city from 1991 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, Nicolai was president of the Economic and Social Council, a public institution that facilitates dialogue between employers, unions and the government; and was a secretary of state at the Labour Ministry from 1997 to 2000. She belonged to the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢ-CD) from 1997 until August 2000, when it expelled her for signing a declaration in support of then-PNL member Theodor Stolojan; the PNŢ-CD supported Mugur Isărescu in the upcoming presidential election.
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