Which party was Radu Berceanu a member of after Nov 2009?
Radu Berceanu Radu Mircea Berceanu ( ; born 5 March 1953 ) is a Romanian engineer and politician . A member of the Democratic Liberal Party ( PD-L ) , he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Dolj County from 1990 to 2004 , and sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2012 ( except for the period of April–December 2008 ) , representing the same county . In the Radu Vasile and Mugur Isărescu cabinets , he was Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1998 to 2000 ; in the first Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet , he was Minister of Transport , Construction and Tourism from 2006 to 2007 ; and in the Emil Boc cabinet , he was Minister of Transport and Infrastructure from December 2008 to September 2010 . From October to December 2009 , he was also acting Minister of Agriculture following the political crisis that led to the withdrawal of the Social Democratic Party from government . In 1978 , he married Mihaela-Marinela Bădîrcea ( b . 1954 ) . The couple have two sons , Victor ( b . 1981 ) and Andrei ( b . 1984 ) . Biography . He was born in Râmnicu Vâlcea ; his father was an aviator and his mother a nurse . After completing secondary studies in 1972 at the citys Vasile Roaită Theoretical High School ( now called Mircea cel Bătrân ) , he enrolled at the Polytehnic Institute of Bucharest , studying Aerospace Design and graduating in 1978 . He also took courses on parliamentarism in Canada in 1990 and on democratic institutions in the United States in 1991 . Following university , Berceanu worked as an engineer in Craiova from 1978 to 1981 at a flight testing centre . From 1984 to 1989 he also worked as an engineer at the citys airplane factory . Between 1980 and 1989 , he taught at an industrial high school in Craiova . He also took up scale modeling , and has won prizes for both his ship and aircraft models . During the 1980s , he set up an amateur scale modeling circle for students , which was notably attended by future literary critic Angelo Mitchievici . According to Mitchievicis memoir of life under the communist regime , these circumstances allowed Berceanu to attend workshops in various Eastern Bloc countries , and he probably thus had the opportunity to engage in some bişniţă [ roughly , grey market transactions ] . Right after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , Berceanu entered politics . He was Dolj County vice president of the Council of the National Salvation Front in December 1989-January 1990 . From February to May 1990 , he was president of his countys Provisional Council of National Unity , as well as belonging to the main council in Bucharest . From its founding in February 1990 until his resignation in 2012 to make way for a younger leadership , he headed the Dolj County PD-L chapter and that of its predecessor , the Democratic Party ( PD ) , of which he was a founding member . At the May 1990 election , he won a seat in the Chamber , doing so again in 1992 , 1996 and 2000 . While there , he served as the bodys vice president at various times between 1992 and 2004 . From his election in 2004 until April 2008 , he sat in the Senate and was vice president there as well . He then resigned in order to run in the June local election for President of the Dolj County Council , and while gaining a seat as a county councillor , was defeated on a 42–33.8 margin by a Social Democratic candidate . At the November 2008 parliamentary election , Berceanu regained his Senate seat , as well as being named Transport Minister the following month . From October 2009 , when the Social Democrats left the cabinet due to a political crisis , until that December , when a new cabinet was approved , he was also acting Agriculture Minister . After re-assuming ministerial office in 2008 , Berceanu announced motorway construction as his priority ( in spite of serious budget cuts brought about by the financial crisis ) , although acknowledging the poor state of national roads and the state railway Căile Ferate Române ( CFR ) , as well as the need to focus on airports ( such as the Braşov Airport currently under construction ) . He vowed to complete the A2 motorway by 2011 ( notwithstanding a 2006 promise to complete it by summer 2008 ) , and a Bucharest-Braşov motorway as well as a Bucharest-Calafat one ( ending at the Calafat-Vidin Bridge ) by 2014 . This emphasis meant plans for twelve express roads had to be scrapped . Also planned by him is an hourly train from Gara de Nord to Otopeni , with a bus transfer to the nearby airport . He has been a strong critic of his predecessor Ludovic Orban , whom he accused of spending substantial amounts of money on studies for express roads , not one metre of which was built under Orban ( and which , as a motorway advocate , he derided as being outdated ) . He has announced plans for major restructuring at the CFR , including a potential 12,000 layoffs , for which he again blamed the previous government . Orban fired back , labelling the 2009 transport budget a cruel mockery from an infrastructure development standpoint , accusing Berceanu of blocking the Calafat-Vidin project and of not lifting a finger on the Craiova-Piteşti express road , and stating his personal feeling that Berceanus days as minister were numbered . He was dismissed a year and a half later , following a cabinet reshuffle . In April 2012 , Berceanu announced his decision to retire from politics , and he did not run at the December election . Berceanus wealth has drawn attention : in 2008 , his declared assets included bank accounts worth over €800,000 , three apartments ( including one in Spain ) , a Toyota RAV4 and a Mercedes-Benz W220 . In 2006 , he made public his 300-page Securitate file , revealing that the communist secret police agency had harassed and threatened him and his wife in the autumn of 1989 for allegedly intending to flee the country using a hang glider he had built . He noted having given about two ink cartridges worth of declarations , that he was almost excluded from the Romanian Communist Party in 1981 , and that , despite being the first party member in his family , he was known for his anti-regime position and never informed on his colleagues . In 2000 , French President Jacques Chirac conferred the rank of Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite upon Berceanu . Within his party , he has been secretary , vice president for organisational affairs , and vice president . He has also served as a delegate from the Romanian Parliament to the Council of Europe ( 1996–1998 , 2000–2006 , 2007–2008 ) . External links . - Official site - Profile at the Romanian Senate site - Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site