Daniel Constantin (politician)

Daniel Constantin (Romanian pronunciation: [daniˈel konstanˈtin]; born June 26, 1978, Pitești, Romania) is a Romanian politician, member of PRO Romania.

Daniel Constantin
Deputy Prime Minister of Romania
In office
4 January 2017 – 3 April 2017
Prime MinisterSorin Grindeanu
In office
5 March 2014 – 13 December 2014
Prime MinisterVictor Ponta
President of the Conservative Party
In office
February 2010 – 19 June 2015
Preceded byDan Voiculescu
Succeeded byHimself & Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (party merged with the Liberal Reformist Party into the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats)
Co-Founding Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats
In office
19 June 2015 – April 2017
Preceded byHimself (as president of the Conservative Party)
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (as president of the Liberal Reformist Party)
Succeeded byCălin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
In office
7 May 2012 – 17 November 2015
Prime MinisterVictor Ponta
Preceded byStelian Fuia
Succeeded byAchim Irimescu
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
In office
4 January 2017 – 3 April 2017
Prime MinisterSorin Grindeanu
Preceded byCristiana Pașca-Palmer
Succeeded byGratiela-Leocadia Gavrilescu
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Assumed office
2012
Personal details
Born (1978-06-26) 26 June 1978
Pitești, Romania
Political partyPro Romania Party (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations		Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (2015–2017)
Conservative Party (before 2015)
Alma materUniversity of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine

He has been a Member of Parliament since 2012, co-chairman of the ALDE from 2015 to 2017, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment from January to April, 2017.

Education

Daniel Constantin graduated from the Faculty of Animal Husbandry (in 2002) and made his Master at the Faculty of Management, Quality Management and Innovation (in 2004) at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest.

Professional carrier

Among the professional activities are to be mentioned:

  • Between April 2009 and October 2009 he held the position of Director General of the Payments and Intervention Agency for Agriculture;
  • Between 2007 and 2009 he was an independent evaluator of the World Bank in the MAKIS project
  • Between 2003 and 2006 he held the position of Coordinator of the Body of European Integration Advisers within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development;

Between 1999 and 2003 he held several positions representing the Students of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, among which are:

  • Between 2000-2002 he was the president of the League of Students from the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest
  • Between 2001-2002 he was a member of the National Council of Students under the Ministry of Education and Research.

Political career

President and founding member of PRO Romania

In 2017, Daniel Constantin founded together with former Prime Ministers Victor Ponta and Sorin Cimpeanu the Pro Romania Party.[1] Until the first congress that took place in October 2018, PRO Romania was led by Daniel Constantin as president.

ALDE Co - Chair

Through the merger of the Conservative Party and the PLR, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Party was founded on June 19, 2015, with Daniel Constantin as its founding member, who also has the position of co-president.

President of the CP

In 2006, Daniel Constantin joined the Conservative Party (CP), where he coordinated the work of the European Funds Department. In 2010, following an extraordinary congress, he was elected president of the CP, with the support of the party's founder, Dan Voiculescu. Thus, Daniel Constantin became the youngest party president in Romania.

Minister of Agriculture

In 2012, Daniel Constantin was appointed the Minister of Agriculture in the Victor Ponta cabinet.[2] The agriculture portfolio and the appointment of Constantin to this post were announced by the Prime Minister Ponta before the presentation of the composition of the government, which showed that his position was established before the negotiations of the other portfolios.

Daniel Constantin has a personal debt of almost 300,000 euros to Dan Voiculescu. The Ministry of Agriculture, under the leadership of Daniel Constantin, is in dispute with the Grivco group, controlled by Voiculescu, accusing him of a damage of 60 million euros, following the fraudulent privatization of the Food Research Institute (ICA). Voiculescu was sued in December 2008, in the case regarding the privatization of ICA, a state-owned company acquired by Voiculescu from the state after it was undervalued by over 60 million euros. Thus, Constantine is suspected of having been appointed minister only to remove them.[3] Subsequently, by virtue of this debt, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration won in 2018 a lawsuit against Daniel Constantin in which the state must recover part of the damage from the ICA file from the payment of that debt.[4]

On December 9, 2012, he won the became MP from Argeș County.

Notes
  1. "Echipa". Pro Romania (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  2. (in Romanian) Profile Archived 2012-10-12 at the Wayback Machine at the Romanian Government site; accessed July 4, 2012
  3. "EXCLUSIV. Ministerul Agriculturii, o miză de 60.000.000 € pentru Voic…", archive.vn, 5 July 2013, retrieved 1 September 2020
  4. Ionel Stoica (8 July 2017), "Judecătorii au admis cererea ANAF de poprire a conturilor lui Daniel Constantin. Politicianul are o datorie de 295.000 de euro la Dan Voiculescu", Adevărul, retrieved 1 September 2020
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