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Mircea Geoana, designated candidate of the PSD+PC Alliance to the presidential election of Nov 22, 2009, was born in Bucharest, on July 14, 1958.
He graduated from the Mechanics Faculty, of the Polytechnics of Bucharest. He passed a doctor’s degree in World Economics at the Academy for Economic Studies of Bucharest, in 1992.
Diplomatic activity
In 1990, Geoana entered the Foreign Ministry, MAE, being adviser with the Directorate for the relationship of Romania with France.
A year later, Geoana became director of the Department for European Affairs (the North- Atlantic Organization, the European Community, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Union, the Council of Europe), in MAE. In 1991, he led the Romanian delegation at the Committee of High Officials of the OSCE.
He took a training course in France, at “L’Ecole Nationale for Administration of Paris,” that he graduated from in 1992.
In 1994, he was appointed director general at the General Directorate for Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, of the MAE. The same year, he graduated from the course about democratic institutions of NATO.
In 1995, Mircea Geoana was designated head of the General Directorate for Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, from MAE. The same year, he graduated from the course about democratic institutions of NATO.
In 1995, Mircea Geoana was designated head of the General Directorate for Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Between 1993 and 1995, he was spokesman in MAE.
In Feb 1996, Mircea Geoana was named ambassador of Romania in Washington, being the youngest Romanian diplomat, on such a position. In March 2000, he was given the diplomatic rank of ambassador.
In Dec 2000, after the Social Democrats won the election, Mircea Geoana was designated minister for Foreign Affairs.
In 2001, he held the position of president-in-office of OSCE, and four years later, he was given the mandate of personal representative of the president-in-office of OSCE for Georgia. In 2004, according to the system of rotation in the UN Security Council, he was, for a while, president of this body.
Political activity
Mircea Geoana became member of the Social Democratic Party (P SD) in 2001 and his ascent in the Romanian politics was fast. Between 2001 and 2005, he was vice-president of this party.
He released the project-programme called ‘Social Romania’, a programme which proposes an innovating vision on the development of the Romanian society.
In 2001, Mircea Geoana became senator of Dolj and president of the Senate’s Commission on Foreign Affairs and member of the Romanian Parliament’s for European Integration.
In the autumn of 2004 he was nominated candidate of PSD for premier, alongside Adrian Nastase. After the presidential elections in the same year, Mircea Geoana became a solid candidate at the party’s helm.
On April 21, 2005 he was elected president of the social-democrats in a political confrontation which approved two different projects. In the race for PSD’s president he obtained 964 votes for and 541 votes against whereas his countercandidate Ion Iliescu obtained 530 votes for and 975 votes against.
On December 10, 2006 he was re-elected by the Congress of the Social Democratic Party. Mircea Geoana is incumbent president of the Social Democratic Party.
In January 2006, he was elected co-president of the Socialist International Committee for South-Eastern, position held together with leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party Sergey Stanishev.
As leader of the Romanian left wing, Mircea Geoana has promoted in a first a Romanian Social Model, based on the fundaments of the European social-democracy and focused on the needs and realities specific to countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
In October 2008, at the PSD Congress, Mircea Geoana was unanimously nominated as the party’s candidate for the position of prime minister.
On November 30, 2008, following the parliamentary elections, he won the second mandate of senator of his career, being elected in the constituency no 5 of Dolj when he obtained 65% of the votes.
Mircea Geoana was elected chairman of the Senate on December 22, 2008 being the successor of his party’s colleague, Nicolae Vacaroiu at the helm of the Romanian Senate.
In May 2009, the National Council of PSD designated Mircea Geoana as candidate of the Social Democratic Party for the presidential elections of November 22, 2009.
On October 2009, Mircea Geoana officially announced his candidature at a congress of the social-democrats.
Mircea Geoana runs for president for the first time.
Awards
Mircea Geoana was awarded the National Order ‘Romania’s Star’ in rank of Commander on December 1, 2001 on Romania’s National Day for special services with which he contributed to the country’s foreign policy.
In October 2002, he was awarded another major distinction: France Legion of Honour, France’s highest civil and military distinction established in 1802 and it has been uninterruptedly awarded ever since.
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