Gheorghe Barbu (born November 3, 1951) is a
Romania
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n politician. A member of the
Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), he represented
Hunedoara County
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in the
Chamber of Deputies
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from 2000 to 2008, and served as
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in the
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (; born 14 January 1952) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 December 2004 to 22 December 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-pre ...
cabinet from 2004 to 2007.
Biography
Born in Strei village,
Călan
Călan (; ; ) is a town in Hunedoara County, Romania. Twelve villages are administered by the town: Batiz (''Batiz''), Călanu Mic (''Kiskalán''), Grid, Nădăștia de Jos (''Alsónádasd''), Nădăștia de Sus (''Felsőnádasd''), Ohaba Streiul ...
, Hunedoara County, he graduated in 1975 from the Metallurgy faculty of the
Politehnica University of Bucharest
Politehnica University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Politehnica din București) is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania. 200 years of activity have been celebrated lately, as the university was founded in 1818.[Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
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. He was an engineer at the
Brașov
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According to the latest Romanian census (2011), Brașov has a popu ...
tractor factory (1975-1981), at the
Deva
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mining institute (1981-1986) and at the Deva spare parts and repair firm (1987-1996).
[Curriculum vitae]
at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed February 13, 2013
Barbu is married and has two children.
Political activity
He started his political activity right after the
Romanian Revolution
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of December 1989. Between January and May 1990, he was a member of the
National Salvation Front Council in Deva. In 1992, he became a member of the Democratic Party, at the time PD (FSN), Deva municipal organization (Hunedoara County). Within this organization, he held the positions of vice-president (1994-1998) and chairman of the PD's Permanent Bureau from Hunedoara (1998-2001). Currently, he holds the position of deputy chairman of the Permanent National Bureau of the Democratic Party (since 2001) and member of the National Council for the Leadership and Truth Alliance (PNL + PD).
Between 1996 and June 2000, he held the position of president of the Hunedoara County Council. In parallel, between November 1998 and June 2000, he was also the president of the Development Council of the V West Romania Region. He returned for a short time as marketing director at S.C. REMPES S.A. Deva (June-August 2000), after which he was appointed State Secretary of the
Ministry of National Defense
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(August–December 2000).
Following the elections in November 2000, Barbu was elected as an MP of Hunedoara on the lists of the Democratic Party. During the parliamentary term in (2000–2004), he worked as a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Protection of the
Parliament of Romania
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. He was re-elected as Hunedoara MP at the elections held in November 2004, and was temporarily the chairman of the Committee on Labor and Social Protection of the Parliament (until February 2005). As part of his parliamentary activity in the (2000-2004), Barbu was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with South Africa and Canada. In the following parliamentary term (2004-2008), he was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Slovakia, India, and Tunisia.
On 29 December 2004, Barbu was appointed Minister of Labor, Social Solidarity and Family in the
Tăriceanu I Cabinet
The first Tăriceanu cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Romania led by former PNL leader Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu between 29 December 2004 and 5 April 2007. It succeeded the Năstase cabinet and was succeeded by the second Tăricean ...
. Among the legal proposals it is worth mentioning the one proposed in 2005, the draft law that was meant to reduce children allowances from
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7,800,000 to RON 3,000,000. A simple displaying of the project on the website of the Ministry triggered such a hostile feedback from civil society that the day after its submission the Law on mother's allowances was removed from the site and dropped out.
He was replaced from the position of Minister of Labor on April 5, 2007 following the restructuring of the Tăriceanu Government, through the exit of the Democratic Party from the government. On the occasion of the end-of-term he presented the outcomes achieved and particularly, the percentage increase of pensions by 35% in real terms, although a 30% increase was foreseen for both systems within four years, and the increase of the average salary by far above predicted average.
[Decontul miniștrilor PD]
5 April 2007, Bogdan-Alexandru Barliga, Sorin Iordache, Ionel Stoica, Dan Străuț, ''Adevărul
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'', accessed on 12 July 2012
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Living people
1951 births
People from Călan
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
Romanian mining engineers
Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians
Councillors in Romania
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)
Romanian Ministers of Labor
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies alumni