The Ciorbea Cabinet was the 112th

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of Romania, formed 12 December 1996 and dissolved 30 March 1998, with

Victor Ciorbea Victor Ciorbea (; born on 26 October 1954) is a Romanian jurist, politician, and civil/public servant. He was the Mayor of Bucharest between 1996 and 1997 and, after his resignation from this public dignity/position, Prime Minister of Romania fr ...

as head of government. It was a coalition cabinet formed between the winner of the elections, CDR (Convenția Democrată Română, the Romanian Democratic Convention, which included PNȚCD, PNL, PER), USD (Uniunea Social Democrată, the Social Democratic Union, which included PD and PSDR), and UDMR.

Members

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( PNT-CD) Ministers of State: *

Mircea Ciumara Mircea Ciumara (13 September 1943, Călărași, Călărași County, Kingdom of Romania–13 January 2012, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian politician and former cabinet minister in two governments led by the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) ...

(PNT-CD) *

Ulm Spineanu Ulm () is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city. Ulm is located on the eastern edges of the Swabian Jura mountain range, on the up ...

(PNT-CD) *

Gavril Dejeu Gavril Dejeu (; born 11 September 1932) is a Romanian politician who served as Minister of Interior in Victor Ciorbea's cabinet. He was also acting (or '' ad interim'') Prime Minister of Romania from 30 March to 17 April 1998. Born in Poieni ...

(PNT-CD) *

Adrian Severin Adrian Severin (born 28 March 1954) is a Romanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. Adrian Severin started his political career under the Communist rule, as Instructor (''lector'') at Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy, the univer ...

( PD) * Victor Babiuc (PD) *

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (; born 14 January 1952) is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania, prime minister of Romania from 2004 to 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (Romania), Na ...

( PNL) *

Valeriu Stoica Valeriu Stoica (; born 1 October 1953, Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania) is a Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to t ...

(PNL) *

Alexandru Athanasiu Alexandru Athanasiu (; born 1 January 1955) is a Romanian politician and jurist. A former leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), he has been a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 2001. Athanasiu previously served ...

( PSDR) Ministers: *

(PNL) (

Justice In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes (Justinian), Inst ...

) * Victor Babiuc (PD)

Constantin Dudu Ionescu Constantin is an Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Romanian male given name. It can also be a surname. For a list of notable people called Constantin, see Constantine (name). See also * Constantine (name) * Konstantin The first name Konstant ...

(PNT-CD) (

Defense Defense or defence may refer to: Tactical, martial, and political acts or groups * Defense (military), forces primarily intended for warfare * Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with emergencies or enemy attacks * Defense industr ...

) *

(PNT-CD)/

Daniel Dăianu Daniel Dăianu (born 30 August 1952) is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. Early life He was born in Bucharest, Romania in a family of high-ranking Securitate officers. Up to 9th grade he studied at High School nr. 35, after which h ...

( Independent minister) (

Finance Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

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(PNT-CD) (

Culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

) *

Nicolae Noica Nicolae may refer to: * Nicolae (name), an Aromanian and Romanian name * ''Nicolae'' (novel), a 1997 novel See also *Nicolai (disambiguation) *Nicolao Nicolao is an Italian given name and a surname. It may refer to the following: Given name *Ni ...

(PNT-CD) (

Public Works Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings ( municipal buildings, ...

) *

Dinu Gavrilescu People with the given name *Dinu Brătianu (1866–1951), Romanian politician *Dinu Cocea (1929–2013), Romanian actor, film director and screenwriter * Dinu Ghezzo (1941–2011), Romanian conductor * Dinu C. Giurescu (1927–2018), Romanian histor ...

(PNT-CD) (

Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

) *

Ștefan Iosif Drăgulescu Ștefan is the Romanian form of Stephen, used as both a given name and a surname. For the English version, see Stefan. Some better known people with the name Ștefan are listed below. For a comprehensive list see . Notable persons with that name ...

(PNT-CD)/ Ion Victor Bruckner (Independent Minister) (

Health Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, p ...

) *

(PD)/

Andrei Pleșu Andrei Gabriel Pleșu (; born 23 August 1948) is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic. He has been intermittently involved in politics, having been appointed Minister of Culture (1989–1991), Minister of Foreign ...

(Independent Minister) (

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( Industry and Commerce) *

( PSDR) (

Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

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Sorin Pantiș Sorin may refer to any one of the following: People *Sorin (given name), a Romanian masculine name *Edward Sorin (1814–1893), American priest, founder of the University of Notre Dame and St. Edwards University * Herbert I. Sorin (1900–1994), Ne ...

(PNL) (

Communications Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

) * Ioan Oltean (PD)/

Sorin Frunzăverde Sorin Frunzăverde (26 April 1960 – 3 November 2019) was a Romanian politician. He served as the Minister of National Defense of Romania on two occasions as well as the Minister of Tourism and Ministry of Water, Forestry and Environmental Pr ...

(PD)/ Romică Tomescu (PNT-CD) ( Environment) *

Traian Băsescu Traian Băsescu (; born 4 November 1951) is a Romanian politician who served as the president of Romania from 2004 to 2014. Prior to his presidency, Băsescu served as Romanian minister of transport on multiple occasions between 1991 and 2000, ...

(PD)/

Anton Ionescu Anton Ionescu (10 December 1939 – 7 March 2023) was a Romanian politician who served two terms as a Deputy for Cluj. He was Minister of Transport in 1998. Ionescu graduated in 1961 with a degree in civil engineering from the Technical Universit ...

(PNL) (

Transport Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional Motion, movement of humans, animals, and cargo, goods from one location to another. Mode of transport, Modes of transport include aviation, air, land tr ...

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(PNT-CD) (

Interior Interior may refer to: Arts and media * ''Interior'' (Degas) (also known as ''The Rape''), painting by Edgar Degas * ''Interior'' (play), 1895 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck * ''The Interior'' (novel), by Lisa See * Interior de ...

) * Virgil Petrescu (PNT-CD)/

Andrei Marga Andrei Marga (; born 22 May 1946) is a Romanian philosopher, political scientist, and politician. Rector – for the second time – of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, he was a member of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' P ...

(Independent Minister) (

Education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

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(PNT-CD)/

Ilie Șerbănescu Ilie Șerbănescu (20 July 1942 – 8 April 2024) was a Romanian economist and the Ministry of Administration and Interior (Romania), Minister of Reform under Prime Minister Victor Ciorbea. Biography After completing his secondary studies at the ...

(Independent Minister)(Reform) * Bujor Bogdan Teodoriu (Independent Minister) / Horia Ene(Independent Minister) (Research and Technology) * Mihai-Sorin Stănescu (PNL)/

Crin Antonescu George Crin Laurențiu Antonescu (; born 21 September 1959) is a Romanian politician and history teacher who served as Acting President of Romania in 2012. He was also candidate in the 2009 and 2025 presidential elections, finishing both in thir ...

(PNL) (Youth and Sport) *

Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz (; December 14, 1949 – November 16, 2019) was a Romanian politician and architect. A member and twice minister of the Democratic Party (Romania), Democratic Party (PD), he joined the Social Democratic Party (Romania), Soc ...

(PD)/

Ioan Mureșan Ioan is a variation on the name John found in Aromanian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Welsh (), and Sardinian. It is usually masculine. The female equivalent in Romanian and Bulgarian is Ioana. In Russia, the name Ioann is usually reserved for ...

(PNT-CD) (Relation with Parliament) *

Ákos Birtalan Ákos Birtalan (2 June 1962 – 24 August 2011) was a Romanian economist and politician. A member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the legislative elections of 1992, and reel ...

(

UDMR The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR; , RMDSZ ; , UDMR) is a political party in Romania which aims to represent the significant Hungarian minority of Romania. Officially considering itself a federation of minority interests ra ...

) (Tourism) Minister-Delegates: * Alexandru Herlea (PNT-CD) (

European Integration European integration is the process of political, legal, social, regional and economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe, or nearby. European integration has primarily but not exclusively come about through the European Union ...

) * Remus Opriș (PNT-CD) (Local Administration) *

Valentin Ionescu Valentin Marian Ionescu (born September 3, 1961, in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian lawyer, former presidential advisor to the President of Romania Emil Constantinescu (between September 5, 1997, and December 12, 1997) and subsequently Minister ...

(PNL) (Privatization) * Radu Boroianu (PNL) / Sorin-Mircea Bottez (PNL) (Public Information) *

György Tokay György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits (1899–1978), Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy (1867–1933), Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnogra ...

(UDMR) (National Minorities)

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