Oana Niculescu-Mizil

Oana Niculescu-Mizil
Born 11 August 1975
Bucharest, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Education I. L. Caragiale National College
Alma mater
Occupation Business woman
Known for Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
Website
www.oanamizil.ro

Oana Niculescu-Mizil Ştefănescu (born August 11, 1975) is a Romanian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 2000, with an interlude as an independent during 2012, she sat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2008 to 2015.

Biography

She was born in Bucharest to Coman Nicolae Ştefănescu and Lidia Niculescu-Mizil; her maternal grandfather was Paul Niculescu-Mizil, a Ceauşescu-era Communist politician.[1][2][3] She had one brother, Răzvan, who died in a motorcycle accident in 2005, aged 28.[4] A 1994 graduate of I. L. Caragiale National College, she attended Spiru Haret University from 2000 to 2003, studying Marketing and International Business. She also holds a 2009 master's degree from the Carol I National Defence University, where she studied security and national defense. From 2000 to 2002, she worked in the foreign affairs department of President Ion Iliescu's administration, focusing on the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. She has headed a luxury chocolate company since 2003, and has been honorary director of a media consortium since 2004.[5]

Joining the PSD in 2000,[5] Niculescu-Mizil was elected to represent Bucharest's Ferentari neighborhood in Parliament in 2008,[6] and served on its committees for foreign affairs and Romanians abroad during her first term.[7] In 2010, protesting what she saw as the "fraudulent" adoption of a pensions law, she appeared in Parliament in a prison uniform borrowed from the Jilava penitenciary.[8][9] Prior to addressing legislators, President Traian Băsescu asked her, "Do you really think you needed to create a circus, madam?"[8][9] In March 2012, after two years heading the Călăraşi County chapter of the PSD, she was removed from that position after clashing with the party leadership, objecting to its decision to dismiss Marian Vanghelie as head of the Bucharest party organization.[10] Days later, she resigned from the party, alleging that it was no longer promoting advantages for ordinary people, instead advancing the personal interests of certain of its leaders.[11] For the 2012 election, she ran on the lists of the Social Liberal Union, backed by the PSD,[12] and won a new term.[13] Initially assigned to the culture committee, she was later placed on the foreign policy committee.[14] In October 2014, she received a three-year suspended sentence in a conflict of interest case that arose after she hired her mother in her parliamentary office.[15] The following March, when a corruption investigation against Vanghelie began, she resigned from the Chamber, citing a wish not to impede the judicial process.[16]

In 1999, she married Lebanese businessman Jamil Tohme. In 2012, she and Vanghelie, the mayor of Sector 5, which includes her electoral district, confirmed that for the past year, they were in a relationship that had begun after each separated from their respective spouse.[17][18] She is nicknamed Laleaua neagră ("The Black Tulip") after a legendary woman who benefited the Roma residents of Ferentari.[3][18]

Notes

  1. ↑ (Romanian) Biography at Niculescu-Mizil's official site; accessed March 26, 2012
  2. ↑ (Romanian) Mihnea-Petru Pârvu, Magda Spiridon, "Oana Mizil: cum a ajuns o prinţesă comunistă urmaşa lui Ştefan Cel Mare", Evenimentul Zilei, 4 June 2011; accessed March 26, 2012
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 (Romanian) Andreea Ţuligă, "Oana Niculescu Mizil: 'I-am spus poezii cu prostii lui Ceauşescu'", Evenimentul Zilei, 1 March 2009; accessed March 26, 2012
  4. ↑ (Romanian) Cătălin Bulat, Laurenţiu Mihu, "Elena Băsescu şi Fane Spoitoru, la înmormîntarea lui Răzvan Mizil", Evenimentul Zilei, hosted at hotnews.ro, 5 May 2005; accessed March 26, 2012
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 (Romanian) Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed March 26, 2012
  6. ↑ (Romanian) Florentina Tone, "Oana, cea care i-a stins lumina lui Gigi Becali", Adevărul, 2 December 2008; accessed March 26, 2012
  7. ↑ (Romanian) 2008-2012 Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed March 26, 2012
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 (Romanian) "Traian Băsescu către Oana Mizil îmbrăcată în deţinut: Chiar crezi că era nevoie de circ, doamnă?", Evenimentul Zilei, 21 September 2010; accessed March 26, 2012
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 (Romanian) "Oana Niculescu Mizil l-a aşteptat pe Băsescu îmbrăcată în zeghe, la Parlament", România Liberă, 21 September 2010; accessed March 26, 2012
  10. ↑ (Romanian) "Oana Mizil, alungată de la PSD Călăraşi", Jurnalul Naţional, 6 March 2012; accessed March 26, 2012
  11. ↑ (Romanian) Florin Stoican, "Oana Mizil a demisionat din PSD. Motivul: 'Interesele personale ale unor lideri ai partidului'", Adevărul, 11 March 2012; accessed March 26, 2012
  12. ↑ (Romanian) Andreea Udrea, Laura Ciobanu, "PSD și-a validat listele de candidați. Vanghelie și-a strecurat-o pe Oana Mizil printre candidați", Evenimentul Zilei, 16 October 2012; accessed December 11, 2012
  13. ↑ (Romanian) "Oana Mizil a câştigat un mandat de deputat în sectorul lui Vanghelie", Realitatea, 11 December 2012; accessed December 11, 2012
  14. ↑ (Romanian) 2012-2016 Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed December 23, 2014
  15. ↑ (Romanian) Mihai Stoica, "Oana Mizil, condamnată la trei ani de închisoare cu suspendare", Adevărul, 7 October 2014; accessed December 23, 2014
  16. ↑ (Romanian) Ana-Maria Adamoae, Ioana Tomescu, "Oana Mizil şi-a depus depus demisia la Parlament", Evenimentul Zilei, 12 March 2015; accessed March 12, 2015
  17. ↑ (Romanian) Ionela Stănilă, "Şefa Organizaţiei PSD Călăraşi, amor nebun în Alpii Francezi cu Marian Vanghelie", Adevărul, 18 January 2012; accessed March 26, 2012
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 (Romanian) Mihai Voinea, Cristian Delcea, "Iubirea dintre 'doamna Oana' şi tandrul Marian", Adevărul, 18 January 2012; accessed March 26, 2012

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