Loading ...The opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) at its extraordinary congress late on Friday elected Crin Antonescu as its president with 873 votes, while incumbent party leader Calin Popescu-Tariceanu got 546 votes.
Antonescu said after the vote counting that he takes up the PNL leadership by meaning well and stressed that his election to the job proves that each and every Romanian has a chance.
Antonescu said after the vote counting that he takes up the PNL leadership by meaning well and stressed that his election to the job proves that each and every Romanian has a chance.
'I invite you to call all those who are waiting to come to us, I call on you to turn our first thought to those in Romania who believe they have no chance left, to those who no longer trust politics and politicians, to those who believe they are alone in Romania.
Let us all together tell them that they are not alone, that they have a chance because if I, a normal ordinary man, who have worked in this party for 20 years like you and like thousands of our fellows and by your will alone, without any kind of backstage manoeuvring, have succeeded to be elected president of the biggest party in Romania, then each and every Romanian has a chance', Antonescu said.
He thanked Tariceanu for the way in which he has defended Liberalism in Romania. 'I thank Calin Popescu-Tariceanu for his tenacity and courage in defending our Liberal values and I hope I'll be able to learn from him the power that no other president of any party has had, i.e. to allow and to understand the diversity of views in this party in a democratic manner', he stressed.
Antonescu, 49, graduated from the History-Philosophy Faculty of the Bucharest University in 1985.
He studied for a doctor's degree in old world history in 1985-89, when he also was a history teacher in Tulcea and Vaslui (eastern Romania). He has been a PNL member since 1990. He was a vice -president of the party during 1995-2002.
Antonescu was a Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport from 1997-2000. He was re-elected a member of the Deputies' Chamber in 2000 and 2004 and won a senator's seat in the Nov. 2008 elections.
Antonescu was a Minister of Youth Affairs and Sport from 1997-2000. He was re-elected a member of the Deputies' Chamber in 2000 and 2004 and won a senator's seat in the Nov. 2008 elections.
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