Victor Ponta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Victor Ponta

Prime minister of Romania 2012-2015

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1972

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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About Victor Ponta

  • Victor Viorel Ponta (Romanian pronunciation: ['viktor 'ponta]; born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian jurist and politician, who served as Prime Minister of Romania between his appointment by President Traian Basescu in May 2012 and his resignation in November 2015.
  • A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader from 2010 to 2015, he was also joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL).
  • Ponta has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County since 2004.
  • In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009. Ponta began his time as head of government with a victory for his alliance in local elections, as well as criticism from civil society after several prominent Basescu-associated figures in government-funded culture and history institutes were removed or resigned from their posts.
  • Eventually, a political crisis broke out with the replacement of the heads of each legislative chamber and an attempt to dismiss Basescu – an effort that ultimately failed when the subsequent impeachment referendum was invalidated by the Constitutional Court due to low turnout.
  • Meanwhile, Ponta was the subject of controversy due to allegations of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis.
  • Seven months after gaining office, Ponta helped lead the USL to a decisive victory in parliamentary elections, prompting his appointment to a full four-year term as premier.
  • A little over a year later, the USL fell apart and Ponta formed a new cabinet with the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) as coalition partners. A finalist in the November 2014 presidential election, Ponta lost to PNL candidate Klaus Iohannis.
  • The following month, the UDMR quit government, prompting Ponta to form a fourth cabinet, with the Conservative Party (PC) and the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) as junior partners.
  • The cabinet was in office for slightly less than a year, resigning in the wake of the Colectiv nightclub fire.

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