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PSD leader Marian Oprișan lost the position of Vrancea County Council Chairman, which she held for nearly 20 years. The joint candidate of PNL and USR PLUS, Cătălin Dumitru Toma, is the one who won the post after the local elections on September 27, 2020.
In the 2020 local elections, voters were able to vote directly on the president of the County Council. 4 years ago, he was elected from the county councilors, voted on the lists, even by them.
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“If Oprișan falls, it is a stronger sign than the defeat of Gabriela Firea. Think about what it means: Gabriela Firea has been at PSD for six years. Opișan is fiber! Oprișan means PSD. Oprișan meant one of the immortals of the PSD ”, commented on Sunday night, on Digi24, journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu.
Cătălin Dumitru Toma, born 1977, is a senator of the PNL and president of the county liberal organization.
Marian Oprișan, one of the “heavyweights” of the PSD
At the age of 55, Marian Oprișan has always been considered one of the “heavyweights” of the PSD.
He joined the party then led by Ion Iliescu since 1990 and for two years was vice president of the youth organization FSN. In 1992 he became a founding member of the Democratic Front for National Salvation in Romania and was soon appointed leader of the organization of the Democratic Front for National Salvation in Vrancea. Until 2003, he was the local leader of the party, which in the meantime changed his name twice and became the Party of Social Democracy in Romania, then the Social Democratic Party. Marian Oprișan was a simple member of the PSD for only five months, from February to July 2003. In July, he was again appointed leader of PSD Vrancea, a position he has held until now. Furthermore, from the beginning he was part of the party’s leadership structure at the national level.
For 20 uninterrupted years, Marian Oprișan has been President of the Vrancea City Council, more precisely since 2000. But before this date, she also held the position of Vice President of the Vrancea City Council or even President, for a year, since 1995. At the same Since 2000, it has been incorporated into the management structure of several major regional organizations:
- June 12, 2015 – present – President of the Regional Development Council of the Southeast Development Region
- May 17, 2013 – present – Vice-President of the European Confederation of Local Intermediate Powers (CEPLI)
- March 14, 2013 – present – President of the National Union of Provincial Councils of Romania
- 2010 – May 24, 2013 – President of the Regional Development Council of the Southeast Development Region
- 2004 – March 2013 – Vice President of the National Union of Provincial Councils of Romania
- 2000-2002 – Executive President of the National Union of Provincial Councils of Romania
- 2000 – 2002 – Vice President of the Regional Development Council, ADR 2 Southeast
As a student, Marian Oprișan has a degree in political science, after attending the School of Political Science (SNSPA) between 1999 and 2003. She also has a civil servant certificate, which she obtained in 1999, in Iași.
Before entering post-revolutionary politics, Marian Oprișan was, from 1984 to 1990, a computer operator in ÎFocsani clothing company. In 1990 he created a company, SC Seven Stars SA Focsani, which he directed for five years.
The civil servant with a rich mother
Last year, Marian Oprișan was caught driving a car worth more than 100,000 euros. When asked how he could afford such a car, the PSD leader said the car belongs to his mother, who occasionally lends her car.
“The car was bought by my mother, she is the owner. She gives me five minutes to drive it from time to time. If you are interested in more details, ask her. My mother is not an official, but a private person and I don’t see what the problem is. ”Marian Oprișan said for Vrancea’s Ziarul, adding that other cars behind the wheel of which he was caught are also his mother’s.
But where does Lucia Gherarde, the PSD baron’s mother, get money for her son? The same publication quoted Marian Oprişan with a statement from a few years ago in which she assured that her mother had the money received from … him. “15 years ago I could not, but I want to tell you one thing… I did not come from the streets to the administration… When I entered the administration, in 2005, I had already become the first private equity company in Romania. When I left, I already had 1.5 million marks, my money. Money that, it is true, I gave to my mother. “
Marian Oprișan was also in DNA’s crosshairs, since 2006, in the case of the so-called “Deer”, but was finally acquitted in 2015, after nine years of trial. DNA prosecutors had accused her, from her position as president of the City Council, of illegally spending almost two million dollars.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
