Cozmin Gușă

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Cozmin Gușă in 2016

Cozmin Horea Gușă (born 2 July 1970) is a

Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest
from 2004 to 2008.

He has been married since 1994 and has a son and a daughter.[1]

Biography

He was born in

Jurnalul Naţional, also working during that time at Antena 1. From 2001 to 2003, he was president of the Association for the Promotion of Young People.[1]

Gușă's political career began in 2001, when he became secretary general of the Social Democratic Party (PSD); until 2003, he was thought of as the right-hand man of then-party leader and Prime Minister Adrian Năstase. That year, he resigned from the party, citing differences in vision with members of an older generation such as Viorel Hrebenciuc, Octav Cozmâncă and Miron Mitrea. Later in 2003, he went on to found Iniţiativa 2003, a non-partisan, non-governmental organisation;[2] he remained its president until 2008.[1]

Following an agreement between his group and the

concurrent legislative election.[2] He remained in charge of the PD's campaigns into 2005.[1]

In early 2005,

2008 legislative election later that year, knowing it did not have a realistic chance of winning, and Guşă declined an invitation to run from the Cluj County PSD, preferring to focus on business. In January 2009, he announced his "temporary" withdrawal from political life,[2] with Lavinia Șandru succeeding him as head of the PIN.[5]

Gușă has been a critic of Romanian Presidents Ion Iliescu, toward whom Jurnalul Național had an "extremely virulent attitude" while Gușă was there[6] (in turn, in March 2009, Iliescu threatened to resign from the PSD if party leader Mircea Geoană took on Gușă, whom he labelled an "interloper" and a "mercenary", as an adviser[7][8]) and, once they broke with each other, of Traian Băsescu, whom he called a "hypocrite" who "mocks the Constitution" months after the split,[9] and whom he accused of wishing to dismantle the National Anticorruption Directorate once Geoană went ahead and named him an adviser on campaign strategy for Transylvania.[10][11] Gușă has himself held presidential ambitions, announcing he would run in the event the 2007 referendum to impeach Băsescu (which he backed, citing "serious constitutional violations" by the President) had succeeded. In part, he wished to block the rise of Gigi Becali, who had already declared he would run.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d (in Romanian) About me Archived 2009-05-10 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d (in Romanian) "Gușă se retrage după opt ani de carieră politică în trei partide" ("Gușă Withdraws after an Eight-year Political Career in Three Parties"), Mediafax, 30 January 2009; retrieved 30 April 2009
  3. ^ (in Romanian) "Medicul Cristian Rădulescu, noul lider al grupului deputaţilor PD" ("Doctor Cristian Rădulescu, New Leader of the PD Deputies") Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, Adevărul, 4 February 2005; retrieved 30 April 2009
  4. ^ (in Romanian) Florin Rusu, "Gușă demisionează din conducerea PD, însă nu din partid" ("Gușă Resigns from the PD Leadership, but Not from the Party") Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, Curierul Naţional, 9 February 2005; retrieved 30 April 2009
  5. ^ (in Romanian) "Lavinia Șandru, noul preşedinte al PIN" ("Lavinia Șandru, New President of the PIN"), Mediafax, 7 February 2009; retrieved 30 April 2009
  6. ^ (in Romanian) "Gigi Becali şi Cozmin Gușă, alba-neagră politicii româneşti" ("Gigi Becali and Cozmin Gușă, the Black and White of Romanian Politics") Archived 2010-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Sâptâmâna Financiarâ, 29 October 2005; retrieved 30 April 2009
  7. ^ (in Romanian) "Iliescu, în BPN, către Geoană: Ori eu, ori Gușă! – surse" ("Iliescu, in the BPN, to Geoană: 'Either Me, or Gușă!' - Sources"), Mediafax, 16 March 2009; retrieved 30 April 2009
  8. ^ (in Romanian) "Iliescu: Ar fi o greşeală ca PSD să apeleze la "străinaşi" şi "mercenari" ca Gușă" ("Iliescu: It Would Be a Mistake for the PSD to Look toward 'interlopers' and 'mercenaries' such as Gușă"), Mediafax, 16 March 2009; retrieved 30 April 2009
  9. ^ (in Romanian) "Cozmin Gușă: Traian Băsescu este un preşedinte ipocrit, care fraudează Constituţia!" ("Cozmin Gușă: Traian Băsescu Is a Hypocrite of a President, Who Mocks the Constitution!")[permanent dead link], Gardianul, 14 June 2005; retrieved 30 April 2009
  10. ^ (in Romanian) "Politic Show", hotnews.ro, 2 April 2005; retrieved 30 April 2009
  11. ^ (in Romanian) "Cozmin Gușă va fi consilierul lui Mircea Geoană pentru zona Transilvania (surse)" ("Cozmin Gușă Will Be Mircea Geoană's Adviser for the Transylvania Region (sources)"), hotnews.ro, 11 March 2009; retrieved 1 May 2009
  12. ^ (in Romanian) "Gușă va candida la preşedinţie" ("Gușă Will Run for President"), Evenimentul Zilei, 16 April 2007; retrieved 30 April 2009

External links

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