Cabinet Boc II

Prime Minister Emil Boc

The Boc II cabinet was the second government of Romania formed by Emil Boc .

history

Prime Minister Emil Boc and his cabinet were elected in the Romanian parliament on December 23, 2009 with 276 of 471 votes and would have had a mandate until November 2012, which was not fully exercised due to the resignation of the government on February 6, 2012.

The government replaced the Boc I cabinet , which was initially supported by the Partidul Democrat Liberal (PD-L, Democratic-Liberal Party ) and Partidul Social Democrat ( Social Democratic Party ) after the parliamentary elections in 2008 . At the beginning of October 2009 this coalition broke up; Emil Boc initially only continued the government with politicians from his PD-L, but was overthrown on October 13, 2009 by a vote of no confidence in parliament. After the presidential election, in which incumbent Traian Băsescu won extremely tightly against his social democratic challenger Mircea Geoană , Băsescu commissioned Emil Boc again to form a government.

The governing parties of the Boc II cabinet are the PD-L and the Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România (UDMR Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania ), the party of the Hungarian minority. The PD-L has eight members in the government, the UDMR four; there are also five independents.

At the time of taking office, PD-L and UDMR only had 198 of the 471 members of the Romanian parliament. They were presumably supported by the 18 members of the smaller national minorities and by most of the non-attached (former members of the PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL). In addition, at least 40 members of the opposition parties (PSD and PNL) must have voted for the new government.

On June 15, 2010, a motion of no confidence by the Social Democratic Party, which was supported by the National Liberal Party, narrowly failed; eight votes were missing to overthrow the government. Ten members of the PD-L supported the vote of no confidence.

After implementing unpopular austerity measures and tax increases as well as in the course of internal power struggles in the PD-L , Emil Boc was forced to replace six ministers on September 3, 2010. Interior Minister Vasile Blaga resigned on September 27, 2010 after numerous police officers reporting to his ministry had taken part in an illegal protest.

On October 27, 2010, the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party again failed to get the required number of votes to overthrow the government; instead of the 236 required for this, the motion received only 219 votes. As a result, the government combined several important laws with the vote of confidence and thereby enforced them.

On April 20, 2011, Labor Minister Ioan Botiș submitted his resignation after irregularities in the use of EU funds became known.

Health Minister Attila Cseke withdrew from the government in August 2011 because, in his opinion, his department had not been adequately taken into account in a supplementary budget.

On September 20, 2011, the Romanian Parliament decided to set up a new Ministry for European Affairs. The aim is to make better use of the available EU funding. Leonard Orban became minister .

After controversial statements about demonstrations against the government's austerity policies, Emil Boc dismissed Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi on January 23, 2012 . A day later, the former PSD member Cristian Diaconescu was named for this office.

On February 6, 2012, Boc announced the resignation of his government. He justified the decision, which was announced at a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television, with the wish to "relax the political and social situation in the country". Cătălin Predoiu became interim prime minister until February 9, 2012, before parliament elected the non-party Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu as the new prime minister on the same day .

The situation did not ease; the state crisis broke out in Romania in 2012 .

composition

The cabinet consisted of 18 members:

Cabinet Boc II
function	image	Surname	Political party	Term of office (beginning)	Term of office (end)
Prime Minister		Emil Boc	PD-L	December 23, 2009	February 6, 2012
Deputy Prime Minister		Béla Markó	UDMR	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Foreign minister		Teodor Baconschi	independent	December 23, 2009	September 28, 2010
		Teodor Baconschi	PD-L	September 28, 2010	January 24, 2012
		Cristian Diaconescu	UNPR	January 24, 2012	February 9, 2012
Finance minister		Sebastian Vlădescu	independent	December 23, 2009	September 3, 2010
Finance minister		Gheorghe Ialomițianu	PD-L	September 3, 2010	February 9, 2012
Minister of Economy and Trade		Adriean Videanu	PD-L	December 23, 2009	September 3, 2010
Minister of Economy and Trade		Ion Ariton	PD-L	September 3, 2010	February 9, 2012
Minister of Justice		Cătălin Predoiu	independent	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Minister of the Interior and Administration		Vasile Blaga	PD-L	December 23, 2009	September 27, 2010
Minister of the Interior and Administration		Traian Igaș	PD-L	September 27, 2010	February 9, 2012
Defense Minister		Gabriel Oprea	UNPR	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Transport and Infrastructure Minister		Radu Berceanu	PD-L	December 23, 2009	September 3, 2010
Transport and Infrastructure Minister		Anca Boagiu	PD-L	September 3, 2010	February 9, 2012
Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development		Mihail Dumitru	independent	December 23, 2009	September 3, 2010
Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development		Valeriu Tabară	PD-L	September 3, 2010	February 9, 2012
Minister of Health		Attila Cseke	UDMR	December 23, 2009	17th August 2011
Minister of Health		László Ritli	UDMR	17th August 2011	February 9, 2012
Minister for Culture, Religion and National Heritage		Hunor Kelemen	UDMR	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Minister for Communication and Information Society		Gabriel Sandu	PD-L	December 23, 2009	September 3, 2010
Minister for Communication and Information Society		Valerian Vreme	PD-L	September 3, 2010	February 9, 2012
Minister for Education, Research and Youth		Daniel Funeriu	PD-L	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Minister for Labor, Family and Social Security		Mihai Șeitan	PD-L	December 23, 2009	September 3, 2010
		Ioan Botiș	PD-L	September 3, 2010	April 20, 2011
		Nicolae Ivășchescu (interim)	PD-L	April 20, 2011	April 21, 2011
		Emil Boc (interim)	PD-L	April 21, 2011	June 3, 2011
		Sebastian Lăzăroiu	independent	June 3, 2011	September 19, 2011
		Sulfina Barbu	PD-L	September 19, 2011	February 9, 2012
Environment Minister		László Borbély	UDMR	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Minister for Tourism and Regional Development		Elena Udrea	PD-L	December 23, 2009	February 9, 2012
Minister for European Affairs		Leonard Orban	PD-L	September 20, 2011	February 9, 2012