Alina Gorghiu

Alina Gorghiu
President of the National Liberal Party
Assumed office
18 December 2014
Serving with Vasile Blaga
Preceded by Klaus Iohannis
Personal details
Born Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu
(1978-09-16) September 16, 1978
Tecuci, Galați County
Nationality Romanian
Political party PNL (2002–present)
Spouse(s) Lucian Isar (m. 2016)[1]
Alma mater Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University
Hyperion University
National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest
Profession Lawyer

Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu (Romanian pronunciation: [aˈlina ʃtefaˈni.a ɡorˈɡi.u]; born September 16, 1978) is a Romanian lawyer and politician who has served as president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) since December 2014. She has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since December 2008.

Biography

Born in Tecuci,[2] Gorghiu completed secondary studies at Vlaicu Vodă National College in Curtea de Argeș in 1997. She then attended the Law and Administration Faculty of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in Bucharest, graduating in 2001. In 2002-2003, she took postgraduate courses at the University of Bucharest's Law Faculty, and from 2004-2008 worked on a degree at the Economics, Law and Administration Faculty of the University of Pitești. She holds two master's degrees: one in Business Criminal Law from Hyperion University (2006), and one in Communications and Public Relations from the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (2007). In 2006, she began working on a doctorate in Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Iași;[3] she was granted the degree in 2012.[4]

In 2002-2003, Gorghiu interned as a lawyer in Bucharest, then working as such from June 2003 to December 2004 at Bogdan Olteanu's firm. Since 2004, she has been the principal associate at a business and management consulting firm in the national capital. From January 2005 to July 2007, she was an associate at Gorghiu, Pop and Associates, working in commercial, civil and criminal law. She then worked as an adviser to the president of the Authority for State Assets Recovery until December 2008. In 2008, she became both an arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration and an accredited mediator, as well as beginning an affiliation with the Mediation and Arbitration Department of Titu Maiorescu University's Law Faculty. In January 2009 she returned to Gorghiu, Pop, and since that May has also been a liquidator at an insolvency agency.[3]

Gorghiu, who joined the PNL in 2002,[5] has held two elected offices. From 2004 to 2008, she was a local councillor on the Sector 5 council in Bucharest.[3] Then in 2008, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies.[6] There, she served as vice president of the committee for investigating abuses and corruption and for petitions. She was also president of the committee of enquiry for verifying the amounts of money paid by the Youth and Sport Ministry through documents signed by minister Monica Iacob-Ridzi for organising the 2009 Youth Day festival.[7] The committee's report, the findings of which were announced by Gorghiu in July 2009, declared that Ridzi had committed embezzlement and abused public office, and sought her indictment by prosecutors.[8] When the minister resigned several days later, Gorghiu stated she was pleased but that the action should have come some time earlier.[9] She was one of the Chamber's vice presidents from September to December 2012.[10]

Re-elected in 2012, she was assigned to the judiciary committee.[11] Additionally, as a member of the joint committee tasked with revising the constitution, she advocated that the absentee ballot and a voting age of sixteen be enshrined in the document.[12] For the second half of 2014, she was the party's spokeswoman.[13] In December 2014, PNL president Klaus Iohannis, previously elected President of Romania, resigned from the party prior to taking office, as required under the constitution. Gorghiu ran to succeed him, earning his endorsement in the process. She was elected on a vote of 47 to 28, defeating Ludovic Orban[10] and thus becoming both the party's youngest leader and the first female in the position.[4] In addition to leading the PNL, she is also, alongside Vasile Blaga, the co-president of a revamped PNL that is scheduled to formally merge with the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) in 2017.[10]

In 2016, she secretly married Lucian Isar, a banker who briefly served as a junior minister under Victor Ponta in 2012.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 (Romanian) Dan Anghel, "Cine este soţul Alinei Gorghiu" ("Who Is Alina Gorghiu's Husband"), Adevărul, 1 February 2016; accessed February 1, 2016
  2. ↑ (Romanian) "Alina Gorghiu, tecuceanca aleasă președinte al PNL" ("Alina Gorghiu, Tecuci Native Elected PNL President"), Tecuceanul, 19 December 2014; accessed December 31, 2014
  3. 1 2 3 (Romanian) Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed November 15, 2009
  4. 1 2 (Romanian) "Premieră în istoria PNL" ("A First in PNL History"), Gândul, 18 December 2014; accessed December 18, 2014
  5. ↑ (Romanian) Alexandru Vișan, "Alina Gorghiu despre candidatura la șefia PNL" ("Alina Gorghiu Regarding Her PNL Leadership Campaign"), Cotidianul, 18 December 2014; accessed December 18, 2014
  6. ↑ (Romanian) Election results, alegeri.tv; accessed November 15, 2009
  7. ↑ (Romanian) 2008-2012 Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed November 15, 2009
  8. ↑ (Romanian) Romulus Georgescu, "Concluziile comisiei 'Ridzi': delapidare şi abuz în serviciu" ("Findings of the Ridzi Committee: Embezzlement and Abuse of Office"), Evenimentul Zilei, 10 July 2009; accessed November 15, 2009
  9. ↑ (Romanian) "Alina Gorghiu: O felicit pe doamna ministru Ridzi, trebuia să facă gestul acesta mai demult" ("Alina Gorghiu: I Applaud Ridzi; She Should Have Done This a While Ago"), Mediafax, 14 July 2009; accessed November 15, 2009
  10. 1 2 3 (Romanian) Iulia Marin, Alina Boghiceanu, Mădălina Mihalache, "Alina Gorghiu este noul preşedinte al PNL" ("Alina Gorghiu Is the New PNL President"), Adevărul, 18 December 2014; accessed December 18, 2014
  11. ↑ (Romanian) 2012- Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed February 1, 2014
  12. ↑ (Romanian) Andi Manciu, "Un deputat PNL susţine votul prin corespondenţă şi dreptul de vot de la 16 ani" ("A PNL Deputy Supports Absentee Balloting and the Right to Vote at 16"), Mediafax, 30 May 2013; accessed December 31, 2014
  13. ↑ (Romanian) Andi Manciu, "Alina Gorghiu a fost desemnată purtător de cuvânt al PNL" ("Alina Gorghiu Designated PNL Spokeswoman"), Mediafax, 7 July 2014; accessed December 18, 2014
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