Mihai Tudose

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Mihai Tudose
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Prime Minister of Romania
In office
29 June 2017 – 16 January 2018
President Klaus Iohannis
Deputy Sevil Shhaideh
Paul Stănescu
Grațiela-Leocadia Gavrilescu (ro)
Marcel Ciolacu
Preceded by Sorin Grindeanu
Succeeded by Mihai Fifor (acting/ad interim)
Member of the European Parliament for Romania
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Minister of Economy
In office
23 February 2017 – 29 June 2017
Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu
Preceded by Alexandru Petrescu
Succeeded by Mihai Fifor
In office
17 December 2014 – 17 November 2015
Prime Minister Victor Ponta
Preceded by Constantin Niță
Succeeded by Costin Grigore Borc
Personal details
Born (1967-03-06) 6 March 1967 (age 57)
Brăila, Brăila County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Political party FDSN (1992–93)
PDSR (1993–2001)
PSD (2001–2019)
PRO Romania (2019–2020)
PSD (2020–present)
Spouse(s) Corina Tudose
Alma mater Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University

Mihai Tudose (born 6 March 1967, in Brăila, Brăila County, Socialist Republic of Romania) is a Romanian politician, deputy in the Parliament of Romania, a former Minister of Economy in 2017 and a former Prime Minister of Romania in 2018. On 16 January, 2018 he resigned from his position as Prime Minister after his own Social Democratic Party (PSD) retracted its political support for his government. He subsequently switched from PSD to Victor Ponta's party PRO Romania in 2019.

On 6 January, 2020 he resigned from PRO Romania and re-joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD)[1]

Political career

Mihai Tudose joined politics in 1992, as a member of the Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN). Today, Tudose is member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its national vice president since 2015.[2] He entered the Parliament in 2000 and was elected consecutively for five terms as deputy in Brăila County.[3] Mihai Tudose was Minister of Economy twice, between 2014 and 2015 in Fourth Ponta Cabinet and between February and June 2017 in Grindeanu Cabinet.[4]

He was one of the potential candidates for Prime Minister brought forward by the majority coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) to succeed Sorin Grindeanu after the latter was dismissed by a motion of no confidence adopted in Parliament by his own party. On 26 June 2017, the majority coalition nominated him for the position and President Iohannis designated him.[5] He took office with his cabinet on 29 June.[6]

Controversy

As a holder of a doctorate in Military Sciences and Information, Tudose was involved in a plagiarism scandal after media reports had alleged that he might have plagiarized some parts of his doctoral work.[7] In the aftermath of the scandal, he relinquished the use of his scientific title.[8]

Commenting on the Székely autonomy initiatives and the use of their flag in public offices on 11 January 2018, Tudose said "If they fly Székely flags on institutions in Székely Land, the people who put the flags out will also hang next to the flags. Autonomy for Székelys is excluded." Acting president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) Bálint Porcsalmi said that Tudose's statement was inadmissible, calling it "primitive" and "reminiscent of the Middle Ages".[9][10] Seven days later, Tudose was forced to resign from his position, partly due to the comments and infighting and lack of confidence via his party.[11]

See also

References

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Economy
2014–2015		 Succeeded by
Costin Grigore Borc
Preceded by
Alexandru Petrescu
 Minister of Economy
2017		 Succeeded by
Mihai Fifor
Preceded by Prime Minister of Romania
2017–2018		 Succeeded by
Mihai Fifor
Acting

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