1. Raluca Turcan has been married to Valeriu Turcan, a former adviser to Romanian President Traian Basescu, since 2004.
12 Facts About Raluca Turcan
1. 2.
Raluca Turcan was born in Botosani to Dumitru and Maria-Margareta Tatarcan; her father is a high school principal.
3.
Raluca Turcan studied in the Faculty of International Economic Relations at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, graduating in 1999.
4.
Raluca Turcan was enrolled at Moscow's Pushkin Institute from 1996 to 1999, and earned a degree in business Russian from there.
5.
Raluca Turcan has pursued studies in Austria and in the United States.
6.
Raluca Turcan was then a parliamentary expert at the Romanian Senate from 2000 to 2004, and from 2000 to 2006 was an associated professor at Transylvania University and at the Romanian-German University of Sibiu.
7.
At that point, the party merged with the Democratic Party and Raluca Turcan became vice president of the new formation, the PDL.
Related searches
Crin Antonescu 8.
Raluca Turcan was Deputy Prime Minister of Romania from November 2019 to December 2020 and Minister of Labour and Social Protection from December 2020 to November 2021.
9.
Raluca Turcan has worked with civil society groups focusing on mass media, free expression, human rights and health.
10.
Raluca Turcan has co-authored an English-Russian-Romanian dictionary of economic terms, as well as the book Integrare si politica fiscala europeana.
11.
Raluca Turcan predicted that then-PNL leader Crin Antonescu would lose to Basescu at the 2009 election and noted the party risked marginalisation if it continued its anti-Basescu strategy.
12.
Raluca Turcan supports modifying the Constitution in order to enhance presidential powers to those found in a consolidated semi-presidential system.