Mihai Tudose
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Mihai Tudose | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2024 | |
| 66th Prime Minister of Romania | |
| In office 29 June 2017 – 16 January 2018 | |
| President | Klaus Iohannis |
| Deputy | Sevil Shhaideh Paul Stănescu Grațiela-Leocadia Gavrilescu Marcel Ciolacu |
| Preceded by | Sorin Grindeanu |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Fifor (acting/ad interim) |
| Member of the European Parliament for Romania | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2019 | |
| Minister of Economy | |
| In office 23 February 2017 – 29 June 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Sorin Grindeanu |
| Preceded by | Alexandru Petrescu |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Fifor |
| In office 17 December 2014 – 17 November 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Victor Ponta |
| Preceded by | Constantin Niță |
| Succeeded by | Costin Grigore Borc |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 March 1967 |
| Party | FDSN (1992–93) PDSR (1993–2001) PSD (2001–2019) PRO Romania (2019–2020) PSD (2020–present) |
| Spouse | Corina Tudose |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University |
Mihai Tudose (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj tuˈdose]; born 6 March 1967) is a Romanian politician, jurist and academic,[1] deputy in the Parliament of Romania, a former Minister of Economy in 2017 and a former Prime Minister of Romania in 2018. On 16 January 2018 he resigned from his position as Prime Minister after his own Social Democratic Party (PSD) retracted its political support for his government. He subsequently switched from PSD to Victor Ponta's party PRO Romania in 2019.
On 6 January 2020, he resigned from PRO Romania and re-joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD).[2]
Mihai Tudose joined politics in 1992, as a member of the Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN). Today, Tudose is member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its national vice president since 2015.[3] He entered the Parliament in 2000 and was elected consecutively for five terms as deputy in Brăila County.[4] Mihai Tudose was Minister of Economy twice, between 2014 and 2015 in Fourth Ponta Cabinet and between February and June 2017 in Grindeanu Cabinet.[5]
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He was one of the potential candidates for Prime Minister brought forward by the majority coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) to succeed Sorin Grindeanu after the latter was dismissed by a motion of no confidence adopted in Parliament by his own party. On 26 June 2017, the majority coalition nominated him for the position and President Iohannis designated him.[6] He took office with his cabinet on 29 June.[7]
