Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz

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Bogdan Niculescu-Duvaz at Atelierele Viitorului - 3rd Edition, Parliament Palace

Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (Romanian pronunciation:

Chamber of Deputies
between 1990 and 2016.

Biography

Early life

Born in

Romanian Revolution, joining the National Salvation Front (FSN), becoming its Secretary and, in 1991, Vice President.[1] In January 1990, Niculescu-Duvăz also joined the provisional governing body (the Provisional National Unity Council, CPUN), as a simple member.[1]

Career

In the

1996 suffrages, representing Constanța County, and served on the Chamber Committee for Public Administration and Territorial Improvement.[1] He joined Victor Ciorbea's coalition government, created around the Romanian Democratic Convention, holding the office of Minister for Relations with Parliament (1996-1998).[1]

He was the PD's Vice President, and, during the

elections of 2000, its campaign coordinator.[1] Also in 2000, Niculescu-Duvăz was again elected a deputy for Constanţa County, and was delegated to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, briefly serving on several of its Commissions.[1] From February to November of the same year, he was Vice President of the Chamber.[1]

He resigned from the PD in 2003, and soon after joined the PSD, becoming the Executive Secretary of its National Bureau.[1] A Quaestor of the Chamber in September 2002 and a member of several Committees (Foreign Policy, European Integration, and the Common Committee of the Chamber and Senate for Drafting Legislative Proposals in Respect to Electoral Laws), Niculescu-Duvăz was again assigned to a ministerial position in Adrian Năstase's executive, serving as Minister-Delegate for Relations with the Social Partners (July–December 2004).[1]

Former

Communist Romania's secret police, the Securitate, and contended that, together with Petre Roman and Victor Babiuc, Niculescu-Duvăz had witnessed Băsescu's acknowledgment that this was the case.[2][3] Constantinescu repeatedly asked for the three alleged witnesses to be summoned for a hearing with the CNSAS (the Council charged with investigating Securitate affiliations).[2][3]

In early 2007, Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz voiced the PSD's calls for the first

Justice and Truth government to undergo restructuring, while contending that the latter's realignment along with the National Liberal Party was not a solution to crisis.[4]

Personal

Niculescu-Duvăz was married and the father of two.[1] He was a trophy hunter, a member of the General Association of Sport Hunters and Fishermen (since 1990), and founder of the Romanian yacht club.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o (in Romanian) Profile at the Chamber of Deputies site
  2. ^ a b (in Romanian) "Lista lui Emil" ("Emil's List"), in Ziua, December 14, 2005 (hosted by kappa.ro)
  3. ^ a b (in Romanian) "Constantinescu: Dosarul preşedintelui Băsescu, distrus!" ("Constantinescu: 'President Băsescu's File - Destroyed!'") Archived May 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, in Gardianul, August 16, 2006 (hosted by kappa.ro)
  4. ^ (in Romanian) "PSD: Restructurarea este o necesitate imperioasă" ("PSD: Restructuring Is a Manifest Necessity"), in Ziua, February 26, 2007
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