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Marcel Ciolacu
Ciolacu in 2024
Prime Minister of Romania
Caretaker
Assumed office
15 June 2023
PresidentKlaus Iohannis
DeputyMarian Neacșu
Cătălin Predoiu
Preceded byNicolae Ciucă
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
23 November 2021 – 15 June 2023
Preceded bySorin Grindeanu (acting)
Succeeded byAlfred Simonis (acting)
In office
27 May 2019 – 19 December 2020
Preceded byLiviu Dragnea
Succeeded byLudovic Orban
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 November 2019
Preceded byViorica Dăncilă
Deputy Prime Minister of Romania
In office
29 June 2017 – 29 January 2018
PresidentKlaus Iohannis
Prime Minister
Preceded byAugustin Jianu
Succeeded byViorel Ștefan
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 December 2012
ConstituencyBuzău County
Personal details
Born
Ion-Marcel Ciolacu

(1967-11-28) 28 November 1967 (age 57)[1]
Buzău, Buzău County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Political partySocial Democratic Party (PSD)
SpouseRoxana Ciolacu (div. 2023)
Domestic partnerSorina Docuz (since 2021)[2]
Children1
Alma materEcological University of Bucharest

Ion-Marcel Ciolacu (born 28 November 1967) is a Romanian politician who currently serves as the prime minister of Romania. He is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 2019. As a previously little-known politician outside of Buzău County, where he owns a pastry shop and a consulting firm,[3][4][5][6][7] Ciolacu came into national prominence when he became the deputy prime minister in 2018 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mihai Tudose.

Following the overwhelming defeat of new PSD leader Viorica Dăncilă in the 2019 Romanian presidential election, on 26 November 2019, Ciolacu was named leader of the party, firstly ad-interim,[8] until he was confirmed to hold the position by the party congress the next year on 22 August 2020 with an overwhelming 1310–91 margin against his opponent.[9] Ciolacu led the party to victory in the 2020 Romanian legislative election but was not able to form a majority coalition in the new legislative. Other parties opposed to the PSD formed a new coalition on 23 December with the new government, thus pushing Ciolacu's PSD into opposition. However, in 2021, following the political crisis that led to the collapse of the Cîțu Cabinet, he managed to bring the PSD back to the government, forming a cabinet with its former rival, the National Liberal Party, thus forming the National Coalition for Romania.[10]

His premiership was described by opposition figures as illiberal,[11][12] or authoritarian,[13][14] being accused of limiting press freedom.[15][16] He was also accused of economic mismanagement; under Ciolacu, Romania reached the highest external debt,[17] while inflation reached 7.3%, the highest in the European Union (where the average was 3.1%),[18][19] and the second-highest in all of Europe, only behind Turkey (as of February 2024).

On 25 November 2024, following his defeat in the first round of that year's presidential election, Ciolacu announced his resignation as leader of the Social Democratic Party. However, he will remain the Prime Minister of Romania until the new government is formed.[20]

Early life and education

Marcel Ciolacu was born in Buzău as the son of Ion Ciolacu, a career military pilot of Aromanian ancestry.[21] In 1995 he obtained a law degree from the Ecological University of Bucharest,[22] which was authorized in May 1995. In 2008 he attended a program in Security and National Defence at the National College of Defence in Bucharest, a controversial university, regarded by some Romanian publications as a diploma mill.[citation needed][23] In 2012 he completed a master's programme in the Management of the Public Sector at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration.[22]

Political career

Early political activity

Marcel Ciolacu participated in the 1989 Romanian Revolution in Buzău,[24][25][26][27] but a recent investigation by independent news organization Recorder has put these claims under scrutiny, having revealed a series of inconsistencies in his account and the lack of supporting evidence for his participation in the 1989 Romanian Revolution.[28][29][30] He became a member of the National Salvation Front in 1990. During the early nineties, Ciolacu climbed the steps in local politics, and by 1996, had become the second-in-command of the Youth Organization of the party. Senator Ion Vasile became the godfather of his child. He remained little known, however, until the mid-2000s. In 2005, he was for several months the interim prefect of Buzau, after which he became, in turn, director of Urbis Serv and deputy mayor of Buzau (2008–2012),[22] while Constantin Boșcodeală was mayor of Buzau (1996–2016). Boșcodeală was later convicted in 2015 for abuse of office during the period 2002–2008, by diverting public funds to a football team and other private companies of which he was a shareholder.[22][31]

Ciolacu entered national politics in 2012, when he was first elected for a deputy seat in Parliament. In 2015, he was elected PSD president for Buzău County, replacing Boșcodeală who stepped down while being investigated. Ciolacu's election was controversial. He ran against Senator Vasile Ion, who eventually withdrew from the race, accusing Ciolacu of rigging the internal elections.[32] Ciolacu was re-elected to Parliament in 2016.

As Deputy Prime Minister

In 2017, Ciolacu was named deputy prime minister in the cabinet led by Mihai Tudose.[33] Tudose's predecessor, Sorin Grindeanu was ousted[34] from his position by a vote of no-confidence initiated by PSD itself, then under the leadership of Liviu Dragnea.[35] Grindeanu's departure did not leave Dragnea's power unquestioned. Previously, the government had held a 295 majority, now it was reduced to a mere 241.[citation needed] For the first time, Dragnea was facing strong dissent in the party at the prospect that President Klaus Iohannis would not name another PSD member to become prime minister, electing instead to force early elections. Since the procedure of calling early elections laid down in the Constitution of Romania is complicated and difficult to trigger, and seeing PSD still had the necessary majority to form another government, the president decided to name Mihai Tudose, Dragnea's newest proposal as ,prime minister. Tudose was not, however, Dragnea's first choice and, the PSD leader needed to find ways to control him better than Grindeanu, who had shown him that the office of prime minister was strong enough to allow its holder to wrestle his power in the party away from him. For this reason, Ciolacu was named deputy prime minister in the Tudose Cabinet, in order to become Dragnea's ears in the government.[citation needed]

Like Tudose himself and Grindeanu before him, however, Ciolacu did not stay loyal to Dragnea for long. By the autumn of 2017, Ciolacu had entered Tudose's grasp and was now fully loyal to the prime minister. The relationship between Tudose and Dragnea started deteriorating rapidly, as had been the case with Grindeanu, but the two maintained publicly that there was no strain between them. By then, Ciolacu was firmly in the Tudose camp.

Tudose soon declared publicly that there was only one person whom he would not tolerate being removed from his cabinet: Ciolacu. In January 2018, Tudose attempted to take full control of his government by asking the resignation of his Interior Minister, Carmen Dan,[36] a Dragnea mouthpiece and loyal lieutenant. As it became quite apparent that this was another power struggle between the prime minister and the leader of the PSD, Ciolacu publicly positioned himself in the Tudose camp. Dragnea once again convened a special party meeting in order to force Tudose's resignation. Seeing that a majority of the party remained loyal to Dragnea, Tudose decided to resign[37] to evade a motion of no confidence like his predecessor. Ciolacu handed in his own resignation from the government shortly thereafter.

First election to the Chamber presidency

After leaving the Executive, Ciolacu returned to his deputy seat in Parliament. Throughout 2018 and the first half of 2019, he stayed out of the spotlight while persisting in the opposition[38] against Dragnea's leadership. In October 2018, the press reported an alleged physical altercation[39] in Parliament between Ciolacu and Dragnea, but both denied the claim.[40]

On 27 May 2019, Liviu Dragnea was convicted of abuse of power and sentenced to three years and six months in prison. This vacated his position as President of the Chamber of Deputies and his leadership position in the party. Ciolacu emerged once more in the public eye, seeking a path to top party leadership. The party's new leader, Viorica Dăncilă, the third prime minister named by Dragnea, was now looking for ways to cement her leadership of the party. For this, she sought the support of Ciolacu and other former opponents of Dragnea. Ciolacu accepted her offer to sponsor him as president of the Chamber of Deputies, succeeding Dragnea himself. On 29 May 2019, Ciolacu was voted the new head of the Chamber.[41] However, his election was won only narrowly and with the support of the PSD-breakaway party, PRO Romania, and its member, former Prime Minister Mihai Tudose.

As leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD)

Ciolacu during a press conference in November 2021

As leader of the Lower Chamber, Ciolacu kept a reserved and non-vocal stance. In October 2019, a motion of no confidence was initiated by the PNL-led opposition that successfully removed Dăncilă from power, even though Ciolacu maintained that the Dăncilă Cabinet would not fall. He supported Viorica Dăncilă's bid to the presidency of Romania but after her defeat and her historically weak result, Ciolacu went on to take control of the party.

On 25 November 2019, one day after the presidential election, Marcel Ciolacu personally visited Dăncilă at her home, event at which has been speculated in the Press Marcel Ciolacu asked her to resign from the party's leadership, offering her an MP seat in the next legislative election[42][43] but which has been denied by Ciolacu, Paul Stănescu and Dăncilă herself.[8] On 26 November, after a six hour long meeting of the Executive Committee of PSD,[44] Viorica Dăncilă resigns as Party Leader, with Marcel Ciolacu acting as Leader and Paul Stănescu as General Secretary following this.[8]

Marcel Ciolacu with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

Ciolacu was expected to run for a full term as leader of PSD at its Congress on 29 February 2020, but the Congress was postponed to 21 March due to the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic in Romania. In early March, they announced plans to move the Congress online in light of the epidemic-related ban of gatherings of more than 1000 people.[45] Ultimately, the Congress took place on 22 August 2020 and resulted in Ciolacu's election as leader of PSD, defeating Eugen Teodorovici on an overwhelming 1310–91 margin.[9]

Prime Minister of Romania (2023–present)

Ciolacu as President of the Chamber of Deputies at the joint session of the parliaments of Moldova and Romania, June 2022

Marcel Ciolacu assumed the office of Prime Minister of Romania on 15 June, in accordance with an informal rotational government agreement with the National Liberal Party in 2023.[46]

On 2 September 2024 the Ciolacu cabinet approved a legislative proposal to transfer one of Romania’s air defense systems to Ukraine following a series of aerial attacks by Russian forces.

2024 presidential campaign

Ciolacu ran for president of Romania in the 2024 Romanian presidential election but narrowly failed to advance to the runoff by 2,740 votes[47] after placing third in the first round of voting on 24 November with 19.15% of the vote. He was criticised for his usage of private jets during his campaign.[48] After failing to advance to the runoff, he announced his resignation as leader of the Social Democratic Party. However, he will remain the Prime Minister until a new majority government is formed.[20] Ciolacu subsequently endorsed Elena Lasconi in the runoff.[49]

Controversies

Mecan Construct investigation

In 2009, the Court of Accounts Buzau found that a construction company in the municipality of Buzau, Urbis Serv, headed by Marcel Ciolacu between 2007 and 2008, caused an approximately €1.3 million overcharge for street and sidewalk construction projects through an illegal contract with a company owned by a party colleague. The company, Mecan Construct, was owned by former PSD County Councilor Dumitru Dobrică.

Ciolacu was accused of conflict of interest causing damages to the municipality by inflating the Mecan contract by approximately 1.3 million euros.[50]

Marcel Ciolacu stated that the ruling of the Buzău Court of Accounts was challenged in court. He stated that a criminal investigation file at the National Anticorruption Directorate Ploiești, in which the allegations regarding the contract with Mecan Construct were investigated, concluded without starting criminal proceedings against him.[51]

Relationship with Omar Hayssam

Marcel Ciolacu was involved in a media scandal in May 2015 after a 20-year-old photograph of him with Omar Hayssam appeared in the press. In approximately 2005, Ciolacu and Hayssam had been attending a hunting party organized by the Buzau Forestry Directorate. In 2006, Omar Hayssam masterminded the kidnapping and holding for ransom of three Romanian journalists in Iraq, for which Hayssam was convicted in 2007 by the Bucharest Court of Appeal to 24 years, four months imprisonment.[52] In addition, there was evidence that Ciolacu appeared on a list of Hayssam's debtors: In the early 2000s, Hayssam appears to have loaned Ciolacu 200 million old lei (20,000 RON).[53] As a result of the scandal, Prime Minister Victor Ponta removed Ciolacu from the position of honorary adviser to the prime minister.

Political positions

A self-proclaimed supporter of economic patriotism,[54][55][56] Ciolacu has been described as adhering to the ideology of nationalism[57][58] and social conservatism.[59] He opposes same-sex marriage, civil partnerships[60][61] and social progressivism.[62][63] He supports left-wing economic policies and right-wing social policies.[64]

Personal life

Marcel Ciolacu married his wife, Roxana, a chemical engineer, in the 1990s, They have one son, Filip,[65] .[66][67] His partner since then has been Sorina Docuz, with whom he is rumoured to have a relationship since 2021,[2] former Miss Buzău and former wife of politician Robert Negoiță.[66] Since the beginning of the relationship between Ciolacu and Docuz, the latter's sister, Elena Arghir, became a member of the Council of Administration of the Romanian Lottery, at the request of the PSD.[66] Former PSD Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici declared for the Romanian press in February 2024 that Docuz and Ciolacu have a child.[68] PSD denied this.[69]

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