Mihai Tudose - 21 Jun 2017 - 15 Jan 2018
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis didn't appear particularly overjoyed at appointing Social Democrat Mihai Tudose as the country's new Prime Minister on 21 June 2017. Tudose took on the premiership after the Social Democratic Party (PSD) filed a no-confidence motion against its former Prime Minister, Sorin Grindeanu, and his government, sparking a political crisis.
The PSD was looking to install someone in power willing to make more of an effort to protect officials facing corruption charges, such as Dragnea, who was on trial for alleged abuse of power and voter fraud.
PSD Deputy Mihai Tudose was born on 6 March 1967 in Braila. Between 1991-1994, Mihai Tudose attended the courses of the Faculty of Legal and Administrative Sciences, after which, in 2001, he completed a postgraduate course of business management and management.
Mihai Tudose is a member of the FDSN since 1992, after which he was organizational secretary, vice-president of the PSD Braila county organization, vice-president of OT PDSR Central and president of OT PDSR Braila. He has also been a member of the PSD National Council since 1994. Between 2004 and 2008 he was the president of the PSD organization, Braila, after which he was head of the PSD Braila county organization. Since 2015 he is also PSD vice-president.
Mihai Tudose held, in the period 1992-1999, the position of Chief of Senator Office, was a jurist at SC Farex SA Braila, and for one year, between 1999 and 2000, he was a county counselor in Braila. In 2000, Mihai Tudose obtained his first mandate as deputy from Braila, now being in his fifth term in parliament and as chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy, Reform and Privatization of the Chamber of Deputies. In fact, he was chairman of this commission during 2004-2014.
In 2002, the Social Democrat followed a specialization course in Brussels on parliamentary control of the NATO armed forces.
Since 2006, Mihai Tudose has graduated several courses in the Superior National Security College, the Romanian Intelligence Service and the National Defense College, and the European Marshall Center for Security Studies - Garrisch, Germany. Between 2006 and 2007, Tudose made a Master in European Economic Policy at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, and in 2007 he received a course on Analysis and Arbitration Conflict at Georgetown University, USA, in collaboration with the College National Defense.
He came to the attention of the press in 2015, when he was accused of plagiarism of his PhD thesis , obtained at the National Academy of Information "Mihai Viteazul", under the guidance of Gabriel Oprea, accused, in turn, of plagiarism, being withdrew the title of doctor.
According to the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism (CRJI), the doctoral thesis on which Mihai Tudose, now the Minister of Economy, became a teacher at the SRI's "Mihai Viteazul" National Academy of Information is not original. The thesis, endorsed in 2010 and published in a well-known publishing house, is titled " Critical Infrastructure - Managerial Model and Strategy " and addresses the issue of recipes that may become vulnerable to various attacks, such as those of terrorists.
But the work itself has a vulnerability, says CRJI: about 50 pages are plagiarized, sometimes word-for-word, from another PhD thesis, backed in 2009 by Chief Commissioner Radu Andriciuc at the Police Academy " Alexandru Ioan Cuza ". Andriciuc's name would not appear in Tudose's book, and the cop admitted to journalists that he sold his thesis. In March 2016, Tudose asked for a PhD.
Tudose prevailed in a power struggle in October 2017, when he demanded, and got, the resignations of two cabinet ministers. The party considered abandoning the prime minister then but hesitated because he had only been in power three months and did not want the country to be seen as racked by political instability.
Tudose resigned after his own party abandoned him in an internal power struggle with the party's all-powerful chairman who, himself, is barred from political office because of a vote-rigging conviction. The political battle in the Social Democratic Party (PSD) came into public view after Tudose called on his Interior Minister Carmen Dan to resign, accusing her of lying. She refused and sought the backing of party kingpin Liviu Dragnea. The party faithful rallied around Dragnea on Monday, forcing the prime minister to step down.
Mihai Tudose announced his resignation from the prime minister position on 15 January 2018, during the Social Democratic Party’s executive committee meeting. Most of PSD’s executive committee members voted in favor of withdrawing political support for the PM. Tudose was the second PSD prime minister forced to leave office after only six months, after a clash with party leader Liviu Dragnea.
The Save Romania Union (USR), the second-biggest opposition party, asked president Klaus Iohannis to refuse the appointment of another prime minister proposed by the PSD-ALDE coalition, claiming that the ruling coalition had lost its legitimacy to govern Romania after overthrowing its second cabinet in 12 months. USR is calling for early elections. The National Liberal Party (PNL) also supported the idea of early elections, according to party leader Ludovic Orban.
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