Vasilica Dancila - 2018-201?
Vasilica Dancila became Prime Minister of Romania on January 29, 2018. She is the first woman in Romanian history to hold the office of Prime Minister. Prior to becoming Prime Minister Dancila was a member of the European Parliament for Romania from 2009 – 2018. In October 2015, she was elected President of the Social Democratic Women's Organization (OFSD). As President of OFSD, Viorica Dancila asked leaders of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD) to ensure a quota of at least 30% female candidates on the lists of the PSD during elections, a proposal that was approved by the PSD leadership.
Vasilica Viorica Dancila was born on December 16, 1963, at Rosiorii de Vede in Teleorman County. She graduated from the Faculty of Drilling and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons, Ploiesti in 1988. In 2006 she graduated from the European Public Spaceship School at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. She specialized in project planning and management, the foundations of the oil economy and decision-making, an expert in legislative harmonization - European integration. During 1997-1998 he was a professor at Videle Highschool. From 1997 to 2009 she was an engineer at Petrom SA, Videle Branch, the Oil and Gas Production Monitoring Service.
She has been a PSD member since 1996. In 2004-2008 she was president of the Women's Organization PSD Videle and local councilor in the same locality. From 2005 to 2009 she was president of PSD Teleorman County Women's Organization and member of the PSD National Council. Between 2003 and 2011 she was president of the PSD Organization - Videle Town.
On 21 January 2009, she became a Social Democrat MEP following the departure of Titus Corlatean and Catalin Nechifor of the European Parliament for the mandate of national MPs. In the European Parliament, she was an alternate member of the Committee on Budgetary Control and of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and a member of the Committee on Budgets and the Delegation for relations with Israel.
She was elected MEP in the PSD + PC lists at the June 7, 2009 poll. She was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. Activates within the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.
By deploying huge numbers of police and gendarmes, the authorities in Bucharest wanted to show the whole world who was in charge in Romania. Around 100,000 people gathered 10 August 2018 in Victoriei (Victory) Square in front of the seat of government to demonstrate against corruption and despotism and call for a functioning constitutional state and an independent judiciary. Many of these people had traveled from across Europe in the preceding days to demand that the values they had come to know in their host countries be upheld in their old homeland. It was an urgent call for democracy and normality in a country that risks suffocating under the stranglehold of kleptocrats and nationwide cronyism. This kind of demonstration was an absolute first in Europe: Tens of thousands of expatriate Romanian citizens returned home during their holidays to show, that they had not forgotten their homeland.
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