Which party was Daniel Constantin (politician) a member of from 2020 to 2021?
Daniel Constantin ( politician ) Daniel Constantin ( ; born June 26 , 1978 , Pitești , Argeș County , Romania ) is a Romanian politician who is currently a member of the National Liberal Party ( PNL ) . He has been a Member of Parliament since 2012 , co-chairman of ALDE from 2015 to 2017 , and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment from January to April , 2017 . Education . Daniel Constantin graduated from the Faculty of Animal Husbandry ( in 2002 ) and made his Master at the Faculty of Management , Quality Management and Innovation ( in 2004 ) at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest . Professional carrier . Among the professional activities are to be mentioned : - Between April 2009 and October 2009 he held the position of Director General of the Payments and Intervention Agency for Agriculture ; - Between 2007 and 2009 he was an independent evaluator of the World Bank in the MAKIS project ; - Between 2003 and 2006 he held the position of Coordinator of the Body of European Integration Advisers within the Ministry of Agriculture , Forests and Rural Development ; Between 1999 and 2003 he held several positions representing the Students of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest , among which are : - Between 2000 and 2002 he was the president of the League of Students from the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest ; - Between 2001 and 2002 he was a member of the National Council of Students under the Ministry of Education and Research . Political career . President and founding member of PRO Romania . In 2017 , Daniel Constantin founded together with former Prime Ministers Victor Ponta and Sorin Cimpeanu the Pro Romania Party . Until the first congress that took place in October 2018 , PRO Romania was led by Daniel Constantin as president . ALDE co-chairman . Through the merger of the Conservative Party and the PLR , the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Party was founded on 19 June 2015 , with Daniel Constantin as its founding member , who also had the position of co-chairman at that time . President of the PC . In 2006 , Daniel Constantin joined the Conservative Party ( PC ) , where he coordinated the work of the European Funds Department . In 2010 , following an extraordinary congress of the party , he was elected president of the PC , with the support of the partys founder , Dan Voiculescu . Thus , at that time , Daniel Constantin became the youngest party president in Romania . Minister of Agriculture . In 2012 , Daniel Constantin was appointed the Minister of Agriculture in the Victor Ponta cabinet . The agriculture portfolio and the appointment of Constantin to this post were announced by the Prime Minister Ponta before the presentation of the composition of the government , which showed that his position was established before the negotiations of the other portfolios . Daniel Constantin has a personal debt of almost 300,000 euros to Dan Voiculescu . The Ministry of Agriculture , under the leadership of Daniel Constantin , is in dispute with the Grivco group , controlled by Voiculescu , accusing him of a damage of 60 million euros , following the fraudulent privatization of the Food Research Institute ( ICA ) . Voiculescu was sued in December 2008 , in the case regarding the privatization of ICA , a state-owned company acquired by Voiculescu from the state after it was undervalued by over 60 million euros . Thus , Constantine is suspected of having been appointed minister only to remove them . Subsequently , by virtue of this debt , the National Agency for Fiscal Administration won in 2018 a lawsuit against Daniel Constantin in which the state must recover part of the damage from the ICA file from the payment of that debt . On 9 December 2012 , he won the became MP from Argeș County .