Romania
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n engineer and politician. A member of the
Social Democratic Party
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Active parties
Fo ...
(PSD), he was a member of the
Romanian Chamber of Deputies
); – Committee for Industries and Services ( ro, Comisia pentru industrii și servicii); – Committee for Transport and Infrastructure ( ro, Comisia pentru transporturi și infrastructură); – Committee for Agriculture, Forestry, Food Indu ...
for
Vrancea County
Vrancea () is a county (județ) in Romania, with its seat at Focșani. It is mostly in the historical region of Moldavia but the southern part, below the Milcov River, is in Muntenia.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 340,310 and ...
from 1996 to 2008, and sat in the
Romanian Senate
) is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania. It has 136 seats (before the 2016 Romanian legislative election the total number of elected representatives was 176), to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-list ...
from 2008 to 2012, representing the same county. In 2012, he returned to the Chamber, also for Vrancea County. In the
Adrian Năstase
Adrian Năstase (; born 22 June 1950) is a Romanian jurist, academic/professor, blogger, and former politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania from October 2000 to December 2004.
He competed in the 2004 presidential election as th ...
cabinet, he was
Minister of Public Works and Transport
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) ( es, Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana), traditionally known as the Ministry of Development (MFOM), is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for pr ...
from 2000 to 2004.
He has four sons and a daughter. His third and current wife, Manuela, a notary by profession, has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2000.Who I Am , retrieved February 27, 2009
Biography
He was born in Sighişoara to Ion and Viorica Mitrea and, after living in Făgăraş and Braşov, moved to
Bucharest
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, where he completed secondary studies at the city's Dr. Petru Groza High School. Following
army
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service in
Medgidia
Medgidia ( or ; historical Turkish names: ''Karasu'' or ''Carasu'', ''Mecidiye'' or ''Megidie'') is a city in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, south-eastern Romania.
History
Archaeological findings show that Dobruja was inhabited since the ...
, he studied transportation at 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. From 1982 to 1983 he worked at a heavy machine factory in Constanţa, and then until 1989 he held a similar position in Bucharest, where he was a director on his factory floor.Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site retrieved February 27, 2009
Following the
1989 Revolution
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, Mitrea became president of the trade union Frăţia, and after Frăţia merged with another union in 1993, he continued until 1995 as head of the National Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Romania - Brotherhood. Joining the PDSR (PSD from 2001), he was elected to the Chamber on its lists in 1996. In 2000, after the PDSR came to power, Mitrea became Minister of Transport, serving until 2004, when the party lost elections. As minister, his achievements included modernising several rail stations, continuing work on the
A2 motorway
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* A2 motorway (Albania), a road connecting Vlore with Fier
* A002 road (Argentina), a road connecting Avenida General Paz and Ministro Pistarini Internat ...
, rebuilding the northern jetty of the Port of Constanţa and completing Bucharest apartment blocks that had been left unfinished since 1989. In April 2008, the
National Anticorruption Directorate
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charged him with receiving bribes, instigating forgery in official documents and using forgery as minister, and Mitrea resigned his Chamber seat that September after his colleagues (despite his request to the contrary) stopped the indictment (and a similar one for Năstase) from moving forward on grounds of
parliamentary immunity
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; he wished to fight the charges and clear his name. After serving as the coordinator of the PSD's successful
2008 election
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campaign, Mitrea won a seat in the Senate. At the
2012 election
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January
*3–4 January: ...
, he returned to the Chamber as one of its vice presidents and a member of its European affairs committee.2012- Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site retrieved July 23, 2013 In October 2014, Mitrea received a two-year prison sentence in a corruption case involving construction at his mother's house; in response, he vowed to appeal. His sentence was upheld the following February, when he was incarcerated at
Poarta Albă
Poarta Albă (literally in en, White Gate) is a commune in Constanța County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. The commune is a port on the Danube–Black Sea Canal.
Villages
The following villages are included in the Poarta Albă commune:
* Poarta Alb ...
. He was freed in May 2016.
Within his party, Mitrea has served as Vice President (1995-1996 and 2001-2005), Secretary General (1996-1997 and 2005-2006) and member of the General Executive Bureau (1997-2000). From 1996 to 2000, he was a vice president, quaestor and secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, also serving as a vice president from 2004 to 2008. From 1991 to 1992, he served on the executive bureau of the
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
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. In 2002,
President
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Ion Iliescu
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awarded him the
Order of the Star of Romania
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, knight class; this was withdrawn in 2019, as a result of his conviction. Ideologically, Mitrea is an avowed
leftist
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but also an
anti-communist
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, and he has worked to distance the PSD from its image as a successor to the
Romanian Communist Party
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List of corruption scandals in Romania
This is a list of notable corruption scandals in Romania.
Investigations resulting in final sentences
Investigations resulting in convictions, subject to appeal
International scandals
* Dan Nica (Minister of Communications) was accused by th ...