Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu 2014

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu [ kəˈlin poˈpesku təriˈtʃe̯aːnu ] (born January 14, 1952 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian politician of the ALDE . From December 28, 2004 to December 22, 2008, he was Prime Minister and thus Prime Minister of Romania and from 2004 to 2009 chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL).

biography

In 1976 Popescu-Tăriceanu completed his training as a hydrotechnical engineer, and in 1981 he obtained a master's degree in mathematics and computer science. He's a Roman Catholic. He has been politically active as a liberal since 1990. In the mid-1990s he was a member of the Partidul Liberal 1993 (with Dinu Patriciu etc.), then again of the PNL . From 1996 to 1997 he was Minister of Industry and Trade in the cabinet of the PNȚ-CD politician Victor Ciorbea .

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu at a 2007 government meeting

In late 2004 Popescu-Tăriceanu formed a coalition of the PNL, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania and the Democratic Party (PD). Just a few months later, he fell out with President Traian Băsescu . This dispute led to the PD leaving the government in April 2007. Popescu-Tăriceanu then formed a minority government from the PNL and the Hungarian Union ( Cabinet Tăriceanu II ), which was temporarily tolerated by the previously opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD). On May 19, 2007 he did not succeed in a referendum to remove Băsescu from his office. In return, the PD failed on June 11, 2007 and the Social Democratic Party on October 3, 2007 in an attempt to overthrow Popescu-Tăriceanu through motions of no confidence in parliament. In the parliamentary elections on November 30, 2008 , Popescu-Tăriceanu and his National Liberal Party suffered a defeat; Popescu-Tăriceanu failed to become prime minister again.

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu was also Vice President of the European Liberals ELDR and the LI ( Liberal International ). In his own party, the PNL, he was defeated on March 20, 2009 at a party congress in a vote for the party chairmanship against Crin Antonescu .

In 2012 Popescu-Tăriceanu was elected to the Senate . At the beginning of 2014 he left the PNL. Shortly afterwards he was elected chairman of the Senate as an independent with the votes of the PSD . He then founded the Partidul Liberal Reformer (PLR) with other MPs and was elected chairman. In November 2014, Popescu-Tăriceanu ran for the Romanian presidential election , in which he achieved the third strongest result, but clearly missed the runoff.

In 2015, Popescu-Tăriceanus PLR merged with the Partidul Conservator to form Partidul Alianța Liberalilor și Democraților (ALDE), where he was elected co-chair. After the parliamentary elections in Romania in 2016 , the ALDE participated in the government with the PSD.

Romania's Supreme Court ruled on February 10, 2017 that Popescu-Tăriceanu was charged with alleged false testimony and aiding and abetting of a criminal in court.

On September 2, 2019, he stepped down as President of the Senate.

literature

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 13/2009 from March 24, 2009, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)