52 Facts About Adriean Videanu

Adriean Videanu is a vice president of the Democratic Liberal Party of Romania, which was led by Emil Boc and the Minister of Economy in the Boc Cabinet, since 22 December 2008.

Adriean Videanu comes from a family of wealthy farmers from the area of Videle, Teleorman.

Adriean Videanu has two brothers: Marian, born in 1958, international transports driver and Fanel, born in 1968, graduate from AES and PhD in economics.

Adriean Videanu performed a military service in a tank unit in Lipova.

Adriean Videanu has been married since 1987 to Mioara Videanu, born on August 12,1963, in the commune of Grosu, Teleorman and graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, with whom he was a childhood friend.

Adriean and Mioara Videanu have two children: Andrei Valentin, born in 1990 and Diana Alexandra, born in 1992.

Andrei Adriean Videanu was admitted in 2009 to George Washington University in the US, where he studies economics.

Cazimir Ionescu, the vice-president of NSF and of the Provisional Council of National Union, responsible for Teleorman county, has address the related request to Adriean Videanu, known and appreciated locally especially for his football activity.

At the age of 27, Adriean Videanu agreed to enter politics and was running for the first time as an MP on the NSF lists.

Adriean Videanu was close to the first group and participated in March 1992 in the National Convention that enshrines the split between the two parties, following the fall of the Romanian government.

At the NSF Extraordinary National Convention of May 1993, the change of name of the NSF party to the Democratic Party was approved, Adriean Videanu was appointed the president of the youth organization and the party spokesman, positions he holds by 1996.

Adriean Videanu was reconfirmed as the executive secretary of NPB.

In June 2005, after his name was circulated in the press for the DP leadership, the position finally belonged to Emil Boc, and Adriean Videanu became the executive president, a position he held by 2007, when the party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party led by Theodor Stolojan and the DP-L was created.

Adriean Videanu was responsible for promoting it within the alliance and in the public space.

At the elections of May 20,1990, Adriean Videanu was elected for the first time as the MP of Teleorman, from NSF.

Adriean Videanu has won his second term as an MP for Teleorman.

Adriean Videanu became a member of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Banking of the Chamber of Deputies, where he collaborated with specialists such as Florin Georgescu or Florian Bercea, specializing in the field of macroeconomic and budgetary strategy.

At the Parliamentary elections of November 1996, Adriean Videanu was re-elected, this time by the Social-Democratic Union, an alliance created in 1995 around the DP.

Adriean Videanu worked in the finance committee of the Chamber of MPs.

At the parliamentary elections of November 2000, Adriean Videanu obtained the 4th consecutive term as deputy of Teleorman on the DP lists.

Adriean Videanu was elected as the vice-president of the finance budget commission of the Chamber of Deputies together with Calin Popescu-Tariceanu from PNL, the president being the PSD deputy, Florin Georgescu.

Re-elected deputy of Teleorman from the DP in November 2004, Adriean Videanu resigned after 2 months in the Parliament, following the appointment as deputy prime minister in the Tariceanu government, in which he was responsible for carrying out of the economic program.

At the local elections of June 2000, Adriean Videanu was one of the main organizers together with Liviu Negoita and Vasile Blaga of Traian Basescu's victorious campaign for the General City Hall of the Capital.

Adriean Videanu worked closely on the motion "Strong Romania - Social-Democratic Romania" with which Traian Basescu won the Convention of May 2001, becoming the president of the PD.

Adriean Videanu was one of the 5 members who supported him in front of the general assembly of the party.

Finally, the PNL returned to the post of prime minister, and Adriean Videanu was appointed as a deputy prime minister and the minister of state responsible for economic activities.

However, Emil Boc won and Adriean Videanu obtained the newly created position of the executive president.

In December 2004, after winning the elections by the DA and Traian Basescu alliance, Adriean Videanu resigned from the Parliament to be appointed the Minister of State and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the Coordination of Economic Activities in the government led by Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.

Adriean Videanu was considered by the press during this period as the main collaborator of Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on economic policies.

Adriean Videanu considers that one of the first industries that can be successfully developed in Romania is the agri-food industry.

In January 2005, Adriean Videanu proposed the generalization of the obligation to declare wealth, limited only to civil servants and public officials, in order to combat tax evasion and the accumulation of illicit assets.

Shortly afterwards, Adriean Videanu decided to resign from the government to run in the local elections in Bucharest.

In 1990, following the opening of the Romanian economy to private initiative and the free market, Adriean Videanu decided together with his wife to start an entrepreneurial activity.

Two years later, Adriean Videanu was among the associates of the SECON company from Rosiorii de Vede, established based on a loan approved by the French bank BNP Paribas.

In 1994, Adriean Videanu entered the capital of the PECON company of the same locality, which breeding the birds and pedigree animals.

In 1994, the Adriean Videanu couple decided to start their own business from the scratch.

Beside the own capital, the Adriean Videanu spouses invested in the business a loan of $350,000 US dollars, obtained from Banca Bucuresti.

The Videanu couple run the company together by 2004, when Adriean Videanu retired so as not to be incompatible with the public positions he hold.

This, in Adriean Videanu's opinion, benefited the Romanian candidates, discouraging some foreign investors, distrustful of the local political and economic environment.

Adriean Videanu involved in the construction of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's residence, the BBC headquarters in Mannheim and the villa of Michael Schumacher in Monte Carlo, among others.

However, in 2010, Adriean Videanu claims, responding to attacks from the media, that his personal wealth is not so big and that the press evaluations are too much exaggerated.

Adriean Videanu declares on this occasion that he is ready to donate publicly any difference that would be found compared to his declaration of wealth.

Until 2005, Adriean Videanu has a low notoriety but mostly positive.

Adriean Videanu defended himself by showing that none of his companies have a contractual relationship with the City Hall and that all tender procedures have been followed by law.

Adriean Videanu appealed and won the lawsuit in December 2011.

Between June and July 2012, Victor Ponta launched various accusations of fraud against Adriean Videanu regarding Hidroelectrica, stating several times that the investigation bodies were notified and that "he is convinced that they will do their duty".

The most important of these accusations is related to the signing and extension of the preferential commercial contracts of Hidroelectrica, contracts for which Adriean Videanu would be responsible, in the opinion of Victor Ponta.

However, Adriean Videanu has shown that during his time as Minister of Economy, the company did not sign any such contract.

Between 2009 and 2010, when Hidroelectrica was in a particularly difficult economic situation, Adriean Videanu agreed to renegotiate the energy tariffs provided in these contracts.

In reply, Adriean Videanu claimed that Victor Ponta's attacks have a political character.

Adriean Videanu, in turn, vehemently rejected these accusations, denying any agreement with Dan Diaconescu and calling Victor Ponta a "national mythomaniac" and "Bula".

Adriean Videanu publicly has shown the memorandum of 2009 in which the members of the DLP-SDP government of that time, of which Victor Ponta was a member, signed the state credit guarantee for Oltchim.