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Dăncilă in 2019
Prime Minister of Romania
In office 29 January 2018 – 4 November 2019
President	Klaus Iohannis
Preceded by	Mihai Tudose
Succeeded by	Ludovic Orban
President of the Social Democratic Party
In office 27 May 2019 – 26 November 2019
Preceded by	Liviu Dragnea
Succeeded by	Marcel Ciolacu
President of Nation People Together
In office 12 April 2022 – 11 September 2024
Preceded by	Party established
Succeeded by	Francesco-Ionel Şerban
Member of the European Parliament for Romania
In office 21 January 2009 – 28 January 2018
Succeeded by	Gabriela Zoană
Personal details
Born	Vasilica Viorica Nica (1963-12-16) 16 December 1963 (age 61) Roșiorii de Vede, Romania
Political party	PNCR (2024–present)
Other political affiliations	PSD (1996–2022) NOI (2022–2024)
Spouse	Cristinel Dăncilă
Children	2
Education	Petroleum-Gas University National University of Political Studies and Public Administration

Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă (Romanian pronunciation: [vasiˈlika vi.oˈrika dənˈtʃilə]; born 16 December 1963) is a Romanian politician, former leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), and was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 January 2018 to 4 November 2019. She is the first woman in Romanian history to hold both the office of Prime Minister and that of president of the PSD. In 2014, she was elected to a second term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), representing the PSD. She was also president of the Social Democratic Women's Organization (OFSD) between 2015 and 2018.

Dăncilă became a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 1996, as part of the party's organization in Teleorman County. Over the years she has held several positions in both PSD and the local administration. She was a local council and a county councilor until 2009, when she was elected to her first term as an MEP. Also she occupied several leadership positions in the party, as president of the local organization, vice president of PSD Teleorman and president of OFSD Teleorman. In 2022, she resigned from the PSD to join the then-newly founded party Nation People Together, of which she became president. She joined the Romanian National Conservative Party in September 2024.

Before entering politics Dăncilă was an engineer with Petrom SA, and prior to that a teacher at Videle Industrial High School.

Biography

Vasilica Viorica Dăncilă (ex Vasilica Rodica Nica) was born on 16 December 1963 in Roșiorii de Vede, Teleorman County. In 1988, she graduated from the Faculty of Drilling of Wells and Exploitation of Hydrocarbon Deposits of the Institute of Petroleum and Gas in Ploiești. In 2006 Dăncilă obtained the master in European Public Space at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest.

Political career

In the European Parliament

In 2009, Viorica Dăncilă was elected on the lists of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) for her first term as a member of the European Parliament and then sat as a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group. During the 5-year term, she did not draft any report as a rapporteur (primary legislator).

Viorica Dăncilă at the National Council of the Social Democratic Pensioners' Organization (December 2014)

In 2014, Viorica Dăncilă was elected for another term as MEP on the Social Democratic Party's list. She was also the leader of the Romanian Social Democrat delegation in the EP and a vice chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. She was also a full member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and a substitute member of the Committee on Regional Development.

In 2015, she was shortlisted for the MEP Awards, in the Agriculture category. Two years later, in 2017, she was again nominated, in two separate categories: Women's Rights & Gender Equality and Research & Innovation.

She officially left the European Parliament on 28 January 2018 to take up the position of prime minister in Romania.

In the Social Democratic Women's Organization

In 2015, social democratic women proposed a Pact to the national political forces which aimed to protect women from domestic violence. This was an initiative of Viorica Dăncilă, then the acting chairwoman of the organization, brought up at the OFSD Summer School in Mamaia, on 28–30 August.

In October 2015, she was elected President of the Social Democratic Women's Organization. As President of OFSD, Viorica Dăncilă asked PSD leaders to ensure a quota of at least 30% female candidates on the lists of the Social Democratic Party during elections. The proposal was approved by the PSD leadership.

Prime Minister and aftermath

Viorica Dăncilă meeting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in April 2018

Viorica Dăncilă meeting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in September 2018

Viorica Dăncilă in the European Parliament after the 2019 Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (July 2019)

On 17 January 2018, President of the Social Democratic Party Liviu Dragnea nominated Viorica Dăncilă as Romania's first female prime minister and the country's third head of government in a year. Her predecessor, Mihai Tudose, resigned on 15 January after his own party withdrew its backing. President Klaus Iohannis accepted PSD's nomination and appointed Dăncilă as prime minister-designate in a move harshly criticized by his supporters and main opposition parties. Her cabinet received the vote of confidence from Parliament on 29 January.

She was ousted as prime minister on 10 October 2019, following a vote of no confidence. She remained as a caretaker of the office until the formation of a new government.

In March 2022, after an over 2-year brief break from politics, she announced her resignation from the PSD in order to become a member of a newly founded (at the time) party, called the Nation People Together (NOI), of which she became president three month later.

Dăncilă joined Cristian Terheș' Romanian National Conservative Party in September 2024.

Personal life

Viorica Dăncilă is married to Cristinel Dăncilă, manager at an oil company and former councillor in the Teleorman County Council. She has an adopted son, Victor.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

See also

In Spanish: Viorica Dăncilă para niños

• Dăncilă Cabinet