Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi Explained

Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi
Office:Minister of Transport
Term Start:7 May 2012
Term End:21 December 2012
Office2:Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Business Environment
Term Start2:5 April 2007
Term End2:22 December 2008
Successor2:Elena Udrea (Minister of Tourism
Constantin Niță (Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Business Environment
Office3:Vice-Chair of European Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control[1]
Term Start3:31 January 2007
Term End3:2 April 2007
Office4:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start4:4 September 2013
Term End4:10 June 2014
Term Start5:1 January 2007
Term End5:02 April 2007[2]
Office6:Member of the Romanian Parliament (Chamber of Deputies) for Satu Mare County
Term Start6:11 June 2014[3]
Term Start7:2012
Term End7:3 September 2013
Term Start8:17 December 2004[4]
Term End8:2008
Office9:President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Satu Mare County[5]
Term Start9:1996
Term End9:April 2007
Birth Date:12 December 1962
Birth Place:Satu Mare, Satu Mare County, Romania
Party:National Liberal Party (PNL)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE)
Nationality:Romanian

Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi (in Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan pronounced as /oˈvidju iˈo̯an ˈsilaɡi/; born 12 December 1962) is a Romanian politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he became Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises in the second Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet (April 5, 2007).

Biography

Born in Satu Mare, Satu Mare County, Socialist Republic of Romania, Silaghi graduated in Mechanical engineering from the Transylvania University of Braşov (1987), and later (2004) took a master's degree in Public administration from the Vasile Goldiş University in Arad. From the time of his graduation to 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution), he worked as an engineer in his native city, and soon after opened his own private enterprise. In 1999–2004, he was president of the Satu Mare Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.

Silaghi joined the PNL in 1990, and was president of its youth wing section in Satu Mare until 1996, while serving as vice president of the main local section. He had other leadership positions until 2000, ultimately becoming president of the PNL section in 2001–2004, and a delegate to the central leadership body in 2002-2004. Between 2000 and 2004, Silaghi was also a member of the Satu Mare City Council.

In the elections of 2004, Silaghi was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Satu Mare County, sitting on the Committee for Budget, Finance and Banks (until September 2005), the Committee for Information Technology and Communications (after September 2005), and the Committee for Industries and Services (after February 2007).

He became an observer to the European Parliament in September 2005. On 1 January 2007 he became a Member of the European Parliament for the PNL, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, with the accession of Romania to the European Union, before being nominated for a ministerial position in early 2007.

Silaghi is married and has two children.

References

  1. Web site: European Parliament / MEPs. 16 November 2014.
  2. Web site: European Parliament Attendance in plenary session during the 6th parliamentary term . 16 November 2014.
  3. Web site: Structura Parlamentului României 2012-2016.
  4. Web site: Structura Parlamentului României 2004-2008.
  5. Web site: pnl.ro - biography - OVIDIU IOAN SILAGHI. 16 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129022154/http://www.pnl.ro/subpagina/ovidiu-ioan-silaghi-1328805297. 29 November 2014. dead.

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