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President Klaus Iohannis signed Ludovic Orban’s resignation after the PNL lost the parliamentary elections on December 6.
Iohannis appointed current Defense Minister Nicolae Cica to take over as acting Prime Minister.
Who is Nicolae Ciucă, the interim prime minister appointed by Klaus Iohannis?
Nicolae Ciuca is a career military man and has been present in numerous military missions abroad, such as Iraq, Afghanistan or Bosnia.
Ciuca was the commander of the 26th Infantry Battalion (or Red Scorpions), which he led in Afghanistan and then Iraq. The Battle of Nassiria (Iraq, May 2004), in which Romanian troops were led by Nicolae Ciuca, is the first battle in which Romanian soldiers were active combatants after World War II.
Nicolae Ciucă was born on February 7, 1967 in Pleniţa, Dolj county. He graduated from the “Tudor Vladimirescu” Military Higher School in Craiova in 1985 and then graduated from the “Nicolae Bălcescu” Military School for Active Officers in Sibiu in 1988. He was a launch platoon commander, then a research platoon commander and training. to become a staff officer in the operations office in 1993.
In 2003 he obtained a doctorate in military science, and on October 25, 2010 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
Nicolae Ciucă received the National Order “By Merit”, in the Degree of Officer, the National Order “By Merit” in the Degree of Knight, the Sign of Honor to the Service of the Fatherland, XV, XX, UN Medal for the UNAVEM III mission, Emblem of Honor Romanian Army and the emblem of honor of the General Staff of the Land Forces.
Nicolae Ciucă was embroiled in a scandal late last year between the Defense Ministry and Klaus Iohannis.
On December 28, 2018, Iohannis signed the decree to extend the mandate of General Nicolae Ciuca as Chief of Defense Staff for one year, after rejecting the proposal made by the Ministry of National Defense for this position at the CSAT meeting.
Subsequently, Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and Defense Minister Gabriel Leş accused the president of having no legal basis, because the proposal to extend his mandate did not come from the Ministry of National Defense.
The situation was debated in court, which ruled in favor of the Presidential Administration.
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