Victor-Viorel
Ponta ( born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian jurist and politician who has
served as Prime Minister of Romania since May 2012. A member of the Social
Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader since 2010, as well as joint leader of
the Social Liberal Union, he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of
Deputies for Gorj County since 2004. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was
Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.
Personal Life
Ponta
and his first wife Roxana (a high school sweetheart) have one son; they
divorced in 2006. That October, in China, he quietly wed Daciana Sârbu, a
future Member of the European Parliament and the daughter of Ponta's Boc
cabinet colleague Ilie Sârbu. The couple's relationship had become serious in
2004, after Ponta's son was born; they had a daughter in March 2008 and married
in a Romanian Orthodox ceremony in the church in Bucharest's Grădina Icoanei
that June.
Ponta
is the winner of the 1989 youth national championship in basketball, where he
played for CSA Steaua București
(Basketball); and of the 2008 Dacia Logan Cup, where he was a co-pilot. He was
made a knight of the National Order for Faithful Service in 2002, and in 2004
received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.
From: www.wikipedia.org
