Deputy Shaorma. The one who spoke 15 minutes in 14 years

With a parliamentary activity erased, the deputy Irinel Stativa managed to stand out publicly this summer, when, together with his party colleague, Adrian Solomon, he was involved in a scandal in a shaormerie in the Old Center.

The negative image of the capital, but also the veiled threats from the leader of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, about the possible exclusion of the two from the candidate lists, did not influence the decisions when the lists for the parliamentary elections on December 6 were finalized. Irinel Stativa won a new eligible seat for the Chamber of Deputies, the third seat, although in the internal elections the local elected representatives of Vaslui did not vote for him in an eligible position.

The leader of PSD Vaslui, Dumitru Buzatu, justified the overturning of the lists, after including his wife, Gabriela Creţu, who moved from last place to first place in the Senate. He stated that in the case of the incumbent parliamentarians, their activity was taken into account.

As for Irinel Stativa, the activity during the three terms is, indeed, a record, but negative: in 14 years of activity, he spoke only 15 minutes, most of the time, when he responded to the presence in vote and when he took the oath.

Irinel Stativa, 47, was first elected to the 2004-2008 legislature. He entered Parliament in 2006, after the incumbent Ion Giurescu was appointed president of the Supervisory Commission of the Private Pension System (CSSPP). At that time, Stativa was the president of the Vaslui Social Democratic Youth. In 2012, Stativa was reelected deputy on the PSD lists.

In the 2016 elections, Irinel Stativa obtained his third term as a deputy. In the three terms, he had a modest parliamentary activity, being rather attracted by local public ceremonies, such as village days, in which the deputy Stativa was in the habit of not absent. Irinel Stativa went down in local history with the statement he made to the press in 2012, after two years in office, when asked why he has not said anything in Parliament since the elections. “I had nothing to say,” he replied calmly.

CV and hidden speeches per second

One of the great mysteries of Deputy Stativa is the CV that he never published. In 2012, when she was applying for the second quarter, a CV appeared in the public space mentioning that Irinel Stativa graduated from the Faculty of Automation and Computing at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iaşi. However, such a faculty does not exist in Cuza, but in the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi. In fact, before entering public administration, Stativa worked as a computer science teacher in a secondary school in Vaslui.
The modest parliamentary activity of the parliamentarian Irinel Stativa is also recorded in the statistics centralized by the Chamber of Deputies. In the 2012-2016 legislature, he spoke on three occasions, once when he was sworn in, once when he responded to his presence and once when he fully presented the Legislative Proposal to encourage professional training for private companies. In total, 3 minutes and 55 seconds.

In the 2016-2020 legislature, Stativa marked 17 speeches, in addition to taking the oath at the beginning of his term. Most of the “speeches” were recorded in 2020, when, in the midst of the pandemic, bills were passed through remote electronic voting. Thus, Irinel Stativa responded 11 times to the presence in the vote, varying the speeches between 4 seconds and 12 seconds.

In 2019, Irinel Stativa spoke only once in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies, 1 minute and 59 seconds, when he presented the rejection of the draft Law to reform and supplement the Law on the status of social worker in Romania.

In 2018, MP Vaslui never spoke in Parliament, but in 2017 he marked four speeches: between 12 seconds and 2 minutes.

Member of Parliament: “The myth has been shattered, he is not deaf-mute”

Stativa’s first speech, in November 2017, caused laughter in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies. And this is because another deputy from Vaslui, Corneliu Bichineţ, publicly stated that Irinel Stativa dispelled the myth that he was “deaf and mute”.

“The intervention of the deputy Irinel Stativa gave me a double joy. First of all, I want to dispel the prejudice of the local press in Vaslui County, as if Mr. Irinel Stativa, in three terms, never spoke. Here he had a very sharp attitude here, he is not deaf-mute, I congratulate him ”, declared Corneliu Bichineţ in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies.

“Hello Hello hello….”

“Adevărul” tried to get a point of view from Irinel Stativa, regarding his parliamentary activity. The deputy answered the phone this afternoon, but after learning who is on the other end of the line, he made it clear that he had no signal on the phone: “Hello, hello … hello.” He later said that he was at work and would return with a phone call, which did not happen.

On Monday, MP Stativa participated, together with other party colleagues, in the patron saint of the monastery in the village of Draxeni.