Vasile Blaga

Vasile Blaga
Blaga in 2012
Member of the European Parliament for Romania
Assumed office
2 July 2019
President of the Senate of Romania
In office
29 November 2011 – 3 July 2012
PresidentTraian Băsescu
Preceded byMircea Geoană
Succeeded byCrin Antonescu
Member of the Senate of Romania
In office
22 November 1996 – 10 December 2000
ConstituencyBihor County
In office
13 December 2004 – 19 December 2016
ConstituencyBucharest
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
18 June 1990 – 14 February 1992
ConstituencyBihor County
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
29 December 2004 – 4 April 2007
Prime MinisterCălin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Preceded byMarian Săniuță
Succeeded byCristian David
In office
1 October 2009 – 27 September 2010
Prime MinisterEmil Boc
Preceded byDan Nica
Succeeded byTraian Igaș
Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration
In office
22 December 2008 – 27 November 2009
Prime MinisterEmil Boc
Preceded byDan Motreanu
Succeeded byElena Udrea
Prefect of Bihor County
In office
1991–1993
President of the National Liberal Party
In office
18 December 2014 – 28 September 2016
Serving with Alina Gorghiu
Preceded byKlaus Iohannis
Succeeded byAlina Gorghiu
Leader of the Democratic Liberal Party
In office
30 June 2012 – 17 November 2014
Preceded byEmil Boc
Succeeded byKlaus Iohannis (merged within the National Liberal Party)
Personal details
Born (1956-07-26) 26 July 1956 (age 68)
Petrileni, Bihor, Romania
Political partyNational Liberal Party
(2014–present)
Other political
affiliations
National Salvation Front (1990–1993)
Democratic Party (1993–2007)
Democratic Liberal Party (2007–2014)
SpouseMargareta Violett Blaga
Children2
Alma materPolytechnic University of Timișoara[1]
Carol I National Defence University

Vasile Blaga (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile ˈblaɡa]; born 26 July 1956) is a Romanian politician who was Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, from 2011 to 2012. He also served as Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice as Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs.

A member of the Democratic Party (PD), he was the Minister of Administration and Interior in the first Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu government (December, 2004–March, 2007) as well as in one of the Emil Boc's governments. He resigned on 27 September 2010.

On 28 November 2011, Blaga was appointed President of the Senate of Romania after the revocation of Mircea Geoană on 23 November. On 30 June 2012, he became the leader of PDL in an extraordinary session following the huge loss suffered by the party in the local elections earlier that month. He was dismissed from the office of President of the Senate on 3 July 2012.

  1. ^ (in Romanian) Curriculum vitae at the Romanian Senate site