Relu Fenechiu

Relu Fenechiu (born July 3, 1965) is a Romanian businessman and former politician. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Iaşi County from 2004 to 2014. In the Victor Ponta cabinet, he served as Transport Minister from 2012 to 2013. Convicted of corruption in 2013, he went to prison the following year.

He was born in Dărmănești, Bacău County, attending high school in Comănești. In 1990, he graduated from the Mechanics Faculty of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, specialising in the technology of building motor vehicles. He holds a 2006 degree from the Carol I National Defence University and a 2007 master's degree in Marketing from the Romanian-American University. In 2008, he took master's courses in Economics and Environmental Management at the Ecological University of Bucharest. From 1990 to 2004, he directed Fene Grup S.A., a Iaşi-based group of construction firms.

Fenechiu joined the Iaşi PNL chapter in 1996, serving as its vice president from 1998 to 2000. He was vice president of the PNL's Iaşi County chapter from 2001 to 2004, and was its president from that time until 2014. In 2001, he joined the party's delegation of national representatives, and became president of its committee on regional policy, land management and transport in 2002. Since 2007, he has sat on the PNL's central political bureau, responsible for its specialty committees. Fenechiu's first elected position was as an Iaşi County councillor, from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, he was elected to the Chamber, being re-elected in 2008. During his first parliamentary term, he was deputy leader of the PNL group from December 2004 to September 2005, followed by a stint as president of the committee on public administration, land management and ecological balance. Additionally, from May 2007, he was on the joint committee for European affairs. In 2009, he rejoined the public administration committee, having been on the culture, arts and mass media committee from the start of his second term. Since that term began, he has been president of the information technology and communications committee. During both terms, he was part of the Romanian Parliament's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Fenechiu was elected to yet another term in 2012, being assigned to the industry committee, and was named Minister of Transport in the Victor Ponta cabinet. Additionally, from September 2013 to the following February, he headed the Chamber's European affairs committee.

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