{"id":4208,"date":"2025-03-18T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:02:33","slug":"former-romanian-prime-minister-dacian-ciolos-appointed-honorary-advisor-to-interim-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4208","title":{"rendered":"Former Romanian prime minister Dacian Ciolo\u0219 appointed honorary advisor to interim president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s interim president Ilie Bolojan is set to appoint former prime minister <strong>Dacian Ciolo\u0219<\/strong> as honorary advisor starting March 20, according to an announcement from the Presidential Administration. He\u00a0will be responsible for involvement in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of Romania\u2019s strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Dacian Ciolo\u0219 served as the prime minister of the technocratic government between November 2015, after the Colectiv nightclub fire led to the fall of the Social Democratic executive led by Victor Ponta, until January 2017. Previously, he was minister of agriculture and the European Commissioner for agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>After serving as PM, he was president of reformist and centrist party Union Save Romania (USR), following the merger between USR and PLUS, the party he founded in 2017. He resigned, however, due to disagreements with other party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Dacian Ciolo\u0219 was also an MEP and led the liberal Renew Group in the European Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After leaving USR, he founded REPER, a party that failed to enter both the European Parliament and the Romanian Parliament in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Dacian Ciolo\u0219 has been absent from the public scene since last year, with minimal involvement in the electoral campaign of REPER.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos | Octav Ganea)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s interim president Ilie Bolojan is set to appoint former prime minister Dacian Ciolo\u0219 as honorary advisor starting March 20, according to an announcement from the Presidential Administration. He\u00a0will be responsible for involvement in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of Romania\u2019s strategic partnerships. Dacian Ciolo\u0219 served as the prime minister of the technocratic government between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}