Ovidiu Raețchi

Ovidiu Alexandru Raețchi (born September 15, 1979) is a Romanian politician. In december 2016, he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest constituency. He is a member of the National Liberal Party(PNL).Also, Ovidiu Raețchi was elected Vice President of the Committee for Defence, Public Order and National Security of the Chamber of Deputies. In July 2017, the Executive Political Bureau of the National Liberal Party (PNL) appointed him as chairman of the party's National Defense and Security Committee, a structure that coordinates PNL's national defense and security policies and develops the governing program on this field of the main Opposition party from Romania.

In 2012, Ovidiu Raeţchi was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in Diaspora Constituency representing the Middle East and Africa. In the 2012 elections he obtained 52%, mainly votes from the Romanian soldiers in Afghanistan, the Romanians from Israel and some Arab countries (Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco).

In the 2012-2016 legislature he was a member of the following standing committees:

As part of his parliamentary work, Ovidiu Raetchi initiated the laws that established Romanian Community Centers abroad, the vote by correspondence for Romanians that reside abroad, and has initiated draft laws aimed at the protection of Romanian citizens who work in foreign countries. Raetchi has also initiated draft laws for the restoration of buildings with seismic risk; the establishment of the National Museum of the Victims of Communism; preventing and combating domestic violence; and the protection of people with Down syndrome. Ovidiu Raetchi is also the originator of the law of an Advocate for Diaspora, deputy Ombudsman specialized in issues of Romanians living abroad.

Also, he took controversial steps like supporting the Syrian opposition by opening a political representation of the revolutionaries in Bucharest or supporting the expulsion of the Assadist ambassador to Bucharest. He claimed that Persian Gulf countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia) should be a strategic priority of the Romanian state.

He intervened in the evacuation scandal of the Literature Museum, by addressing to the Presidents of both Houses of Parliament a letter in which he proposed to move the Romanian Literature Museum in the Palace of Parliament. He asked the leadership of the Chamber of Deputies to amend the Regulation of the Chamber of Deputies to ensure transparent and open voting to requests of immunity waiver.

As a member of the Defence Committee he pleaded for increasing the Army's budget so that it meets NATO criteria. In April 25, 2014 he asked the National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa to increase the budget for the modernization of the Romanian Army.

He insisted on numerous occasions for a national debate on the monarchy. On April 5, 2014 he sent a letter to the Presidents of both Houses of Parliament on the need to open a debate on a hypotheses of monarchy in Romania.

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