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Raluca Turcan

Raluca Turcan

Raluca Turcan (born 1976) is a Romanian economist and politician of the National Liberal Party (PNL), a centre-right party.

Born
1976 (50 years), Botoșani
Party
National Liberal Party
Office
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania 2004–
Education
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, State Institute of Russian Language
Political position

Centre-right · Where sources place the party (National Liberal Party)
Wikipedia: centre-right (National Liberal Party)
Ideology: liberal conservatism, Christian democracy, economic liberalism

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She has sat in the Chamber of Deputies for Sibiu County since 2004 and was Deputy Prime Minister from 2019 to 2020 and Minister of Culture from 2023 to 2024. She is named among the possible contenders for Prime Minister of Romania.

Career

Turcan studied international economic relations at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, graduating in 1999, and took a master's degree in political marketing in 2006. She worked as a parliamentary expert in the Senate from 2000 to 2004 and taught at universities in Brașov and Sibiu. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2004, she was acting president of the PNL in 2016 and 2017, Deputy Prime Minister from November 2019 to December 2020, Minister of Labour and Social Protection until November 2021, and Minister of Culture from June 2023 to December 2024. She began in the Democratic Liberal Party and the Liberal Democratic Party before joining the PNL.

Offices held
  1. Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania 2004–
  2. Minister of Culture 2023–2024
  3. Minister of Labour, Family, Youth and Social Solidarity 2020–2021
  4. Deputy Prime-Minister of Romania 2019–2020

Source: Wikidata

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia

Photo: Razvan Socol, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

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Prime Minister of Romania?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Luca Niculescu5568%
Sorin GrindeanuCentre-left5211%
Alexandru Nazare4610%
Eugen TomacCentre-right452%
George SimionFar right402%
Ilie BolojanCentre-right572%
Alexandru RogobeteCentre-left352%
Dan MotreanuCentre-right562%
Șerban Matei1%
Leonardo BadeaCentre-left511%
Victor Ponta541%
Raluca TurcanCentre-right50<1%

All 38 outcomes

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