Vasilica-Viorica Dancila, Prime Minister-designate (biofile)

Vasilica-Viorica Dancila was born on 16 December 1963, in Rosiorii de Vede, Teleorman County, according to http://www.europarl.europa.eu/. 

She graduated from the Faculty of Well Drilling and Exploitation of Hydrocarbon deposits with the Petroleum & Gas University of Ploiesti, in 1988. 
In 2006, she obtained the "European Public Space" Master's degree with the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. She specialises in project programming and management, the basis of petroleum economy and in making decisions, expert in legislative harmonisation - European integration, according to data published on her personal Facebook page. 

During the 1989-1997 interval, she was a high school teacher in Videle. 
From 1988 to 2009 she was an engineer at Oil Company Petrom SA - a OMV Group member, at Videle Operation Area, the Oil and Gas Production Monitoring Service. 

She has been a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 1996. From 2000 to 2003 she was the Chairwoman of PSD's Women's Organisation in Videle. From 2004 to 2008, she was a local councilor on behalf of PSD, Videle Local Council and 2008 through 2009 she held the position of PSD county councilor, Teleorman County Council. Starting with 2003 and until 2011, she was Chairwoman of the PSD Organisation in Videle. 

From 2005 until 2014, she was Chairwoman of the PSD Teleorman Women's County Organisation and at the same time deputy leader of PSD Teleorman County. Starting with 2005, she has been a member of PSD's National Council. Between 2010 and 2014, she was deputy chair of PSD's National Women's Organisation. She was acting chair of PSD's National Women's Organisation (March 2014 - October 2015). In October 2015, she became Chairwoman of PSD's National Women's Organisation. 

On 21 January 2009, Vasilica-Viorica Dancila became a Social Democrat MEP after Titus Corlatean and Catalin Nechifor left the European Parliament to take up as Romanian parliamentarians. Within the European Parliament, she was alternate member of Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) and of Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and full member in the Budget Committee and in the Delegation for relations with Israel. 

She was elected a MEP on the PSD+PC list at the June 7, 2009 polls. She is a member of the European Parliament's Commission for agriculture and rural development, the Delegation for the relation with Mashreq countries and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. She was active within the European Parliament's Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). Between March 2010 and March 2011, she was leader of PSD's delegation within the European Parliament. 

On 6 February 2014, her name featured on a list of the first 12 candidates proposed by PSD for the MEP elections of 25 May 2014. On 25 May 2014, Viorica Dancila was elected for a second mandate as Eurodeputy, for the 2014-2019 legislature, on the lists of the Electoral Alliance made up of PSD+UNPR+PC. Starting with December 2014, she has been the leader of the Romanian deputies' delegation in S&D Group. 

Viorica Dancila was proposed on 16 January 2018 by the Social Democratic Party for the position of Premier, upon the resignation on 15 January 2017 of Mihai Tudose from the position of Romania's Prime Minister, following the withdrawal of the political support within PSD's National Executive Committee (CExN). On 16 January 2018, President Klaus Iohannis announced that he designated Mihai-Viorel Fifor, National Defence Minister as Acting Premier and on 17 January 2018 he designated Viorica Dancila, proposed by PSD, for the position of Prime Minister.

AGERPRES