Cătălin Ivan
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Cătălin Sorin Ivan (born 23 December 1978) is a Romanian politician, who since the 2009 election has been a Member of the
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for Romania, representing the
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(PSD). Until 2015 he was the Leader of the Romanian delegation to the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament. Since 2019 he is the President of the Alternativa pentru Demnitate Națională (Alternative for National Dignity) Party.


Parliamentary activities

He was the Vice-Chair of Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and also a member of the following committees of the European Parliament: * Committee on Budgetary Control; * Committee on Culture and Education; * Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee; * Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.


Other work

In 2013, he wrote a letter to the British tabloid newspaper ''
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'', attacking the paper's campaign against Romanian and Bulgarian immigration to the UK. He expressed outrage over the negative image being promoted by the Express.


Electoral history


Presidential elections


References

Living people 1978 births MEPs for Romania 2009–2014 Social Democratic Party (Romania) MEPs MEPs for Romania 2014–2019 People from Galați {{Romania-MEP-stub