Cătălin Predoiu
Romanian politician (born 1968)
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::summary Romanian politician (born 1968) ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Cătălin Predoiu |
| image | Catalin Predoiu (portrait crop).jpg |
| caption | Official portrait, 2025 |
| office | Deputy Prime Minister of Romania |
| primeminister | Marcel Ciolacu |
| Himself (acting) | |
| Ilie Bolojan | |
| term_start | 15 June 2023 |
| predecessor | Sorin Grindeanu |
| Hunor Kelemen | |
| office1 | Minister of Internal Affairs |
| primeminister1 | Marcel Ciolacu |
| Himself (acting) | |
| Ilie Bolojan | |
| term_start1 | 15 June 2023 |
| predecessor1 | Lucian Bode |
| office2 | Prime Minister of Romania |
| status2 | Interim |
| term_start2 | 6 May 2025 |
| term_end2 | 23 June 2025 |
| president2 | Ilie Bolojan (acting) |
| Nicușor Dan | |
| deputy2 | Marian Neacșu |
| Barna Tánczos | |
| predecessor2 | Marcel Ciolacu |
| successor2 | Ilie Bolojan |
| term_start3 | 12 June 2023 |
| term_end3 | 15 June 2023 |
| president3 | Klaus Iohannis |
| deputy3 | Sorin Grindeanu |
| Hunor Kelemen | |
| predecessor3 | Nicolae Ciucă |
| successor3 | Marcel Ciolacu |
| president4 | Traian Băsescu |
| deputy4 | Béla Markó |
| term_start4 | 6 February 2012 |
| term_end4 | 9 February 2012 |
| predecessor4 | Emil Boc |
| successor4 | Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu |
| {{Collapsed infobox section begin | Ministerial offices held |
| office6 | Minister of Justice |
| primeminister6 | Nicolae Ciucă |
| Himself (acting) | |
| term_start6 | 25 November 2021 |
| term_end6 | 15 June 2023 |
| predecessor6 | Lucian Bode (acting) |
| successor6 | Alina Gorghiu |
| primeminister7 | Ludovic Orban |
| term_start7 | 4 November 2019 |
| term_end7 | 23 December 2020 |
| predecessor7 | Ana Birchall |
| successor7 | Stelian Ion |
| primeminister8 | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
| Emil Boc | |
| Himself (acting) | |
| Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu | |
| term_start8 | 29 February 2008 |
| term_end8 | 7 May 2012 |
| predecessor8 | Teodor Meleșcanu (acting) |
| successor8 | Titus Corlăţean |
| office9 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| primeminister9 | Emil Boc |
| term_start9 | 1 October 2009 |
| term_end9 | 23 December 2009 |
| predecessor9 | Cristian Diaconescu |
| successor9 | Teodor Baconschi |
| {{Collapsed infobox section begin | Other offices held |
| office10 | President of the National Liberal Party |
| term_start10 | 12 February 2025 |
| term_end10 | 26 May 2025 |
| predecessor10 | Ilie Bolojan (acting) |
| successor10 | Ilie Bolojan (acting) |
| status10 | Acting |
| office11 | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
| term_start11 | 21 December 2016 |
| term_end11 | 20 December 2024 |
| constituency11 | Călărași County |
| Prahova County | |
| office12 | Senator of Romania |
| term_start12 | 20 December 2024 |
| constituency12 | Prahova County |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Buzău, Romania |
| party | PNL (2014–present) |
| otherparty | PNL-AT (1991–1993) |
| PDL (2013–2014) | |
| profession | Lawyer |
| alma_mater | University of Bucharest |
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| name = Cătălin Predoiu | image = Catalin Predoiu (portrait crop).jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2025 | office = Deputy Prime Minister of Romania | primeminister = Marcel Ciolacu Himself (acting) Ilie Bolojan | term_start = 15 June 2023 | term_end = | predecessor = Sorin Grindeanu Hunor Kelemen | successor = | office1 = Minister of Internal Affairs | primeminister1 = Marcel Ciolacu Himself (acting) Ilie Bolojan | term_start1 = 15 June 2023 | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = Lucian Bode | successor1 = | office2 = Prime Minister of Romania | status2 = Interim | term_start2 = 6 May 2025 | term_end2 = 23 June 2025 | president2 = Ilie Bolojan (acting) Nicușor Dan | deputy2 = Marian Neacșu Barna Tánczos | predecessor2 = Marcel Ciolacu | successor2 = Ilie Bolojan | term_start3 = 12 June 2023 | term_end3 = 15 June 2023 | president3 = Klaus Iohannis | deputy3 = Sorin Grindeanu Hunor Kelemen | predecessor3 = Nicolae Ciucă | successor3 = Marcel Ciolacu | president4 = Traian Băsescu | deputy4 = Béla Markó | term_start4 = 6 February 2012 | term_end4 = 9 February 2012 | predecessor4 = Emil Boc | successor4 = Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu | office6 = Minister of Justice | primeminister6 = Nicolae Ciucă Himself (acting) | term_start6 = 25 November 2021 | term_end6 = 15 June 2023 | predecessor6 = Lucian Bode (acting) | successor6 = Alina Gorghiu | primeminister7 = Ludovic Orban | term_start7 = 4 November 2019 | term_end7 = 23 December 2020 | predecessor7 = Ana Birchall | successor7 = Stelian Ion | primeminister8 = Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Emil Boc Himself (acting) Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu | term_start8 = 29 February 2008 | term_end8 = 7 May 2012 | predecessor8 = Teodor Meleșcanu (acting) | successor8 = Titus Corlăţean | office9 = Minister of Foreign Affairs | primeminister9 = Emil Boc | term_start9 = 1 October 2009 | term_end9 = 23 December 2009 | predecessor9 = Cristian Diaconescu | successor9 = Teodor Baconschi | office10 = President of the National Liberal Party | term_start10 = 12 February 2025 | term_end10 = 26 May 2025 | predecessor10 = Ilie Bolojan (acting) | successor10 = Ilie Bolojan (acting) | status10 = Acting | office11 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start11 = 21 December 2016 | term_end11 = 20 December 2024 | constituency11 = Călărași County Prahova County | office12 = Senator of Romania | term_start12 = 20 December 2024 | term_end12 = | constituency12 = Prahova County | birth_date = | birth_place = Buzău, Romania | death_date = | death_place = | party = PNL (2014–present) | otherparty = PNL-AT (1991–1993) PDL (2013–2014) | profession = Lawyer | alma_mater = University of Bucharest Cătălin Marian Predoiu (; born 27 August 1968) is a Romanian politician and lawyer who served as the interim prime minister of Romania from 6 May 2025 to 23 June 2025, following the resignation of Marcel Ciolacu; from 12 June to 15 June 2023, following the resignation of Nicolae Ciucă; and from 6 February to 9 February 2012, following the resignation of Emil Boc.{{Citation | title = Romania PM quits as financial crisis topples government | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/9063708/Romania-PM-quits-as-financial-crisis-topples-government.html | journal = The Telegraph | date = 6 February 2012 | access-date = 2012-02-06
He had previously been the Minister of Justice three times from 2008 to 2012, 2019 to 2020, and from 2021 to 2023.
Early life and education
Cătălin Predoiu graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest in 1991. In 1994 he completed a training program in commercial law at the Caen Bar in France. Since 2003 he is a member of the Council of Bucharest Bar Association.
Between 1994 and 2005 he taught commercial law as a lecturer at University of Bucharest. Predoiu published several articles and studies about commercial law and has received a prize from the Romanian Academy as a co-author of a law treatise. He completed his Ph.D. degree in commercial banks in 2004.
Predoiu was an associate lawyer at the Zamfirescu, Racoți, Predoiu (ZRP) law partnership until 2008 working as a commercial and corporate governance lawyer. His law firm assisted Rompetrol, the company owned by fellow Liberal Dinu Patriciu, as well as the American company Cross Lander during the controversial privatization and bankruptcy of ARO SUV producer.
Predoiu was a member of the board of directors of the state-owned CEC Bank until March 2008, when he resigned due to incompatibility of office.
Political career
Predoiu became a member in 1991 of the National Liberal Party - Young Wing (PNL-AT; a splinter from the National Liberal Party led by Dinu Patriciu and Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu), however this party was soon disbanded in 1993.
On February 29, 2008, in a move that surprised even other leaders of National Liberal Party, Prime-Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu proposed him as Minister of Justice, his candidature being approved by President Traian Băsescu.
He was a candidate from PNL for the Chamber of Deputies in Buzău, however, he got only 28.9% of the votes, losing to Social Democrat Marian Ghiveciu, who got 46.6%. His term as Minister of Justice was extended in the new Emil Boc Cabinet (since 22 December 2008), composed of Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) members. This brought criticism from his party, the National Liberal Party (PNL), which led to Predoiu's self-suspension from it. He argued that he accepted this new nomination only to continue his work at the ministry. He was the only independent minister in the first Boc Cabinet.
In the second Boc cabinet, he was one of three independent ministers of that government (together with Mihail Dumitru and Teodor Baconschi) and the only member of the Tăriceanu cabinet still in office.
In December 2009, he was reappointed Minister of Justice, and became the only independent minister, after Dumitru was replaced and Baconschi became a member of PDL. He was replaced in his position on 8 May 2012.
In October 2011, the Ministry of Justice signed a 1.5 million lei contract with RVA Insolvency, a company to which Predoiu's father-in-law was an associate. According to the Ministry, the conflict of interest laws did not apply in this case because the contract was financed by the World Bank, not the government budget.
In 2013, Predoiu became a member of the PDL, being named the First Vice President and Shadow Prime Minister of the party. Following the alliance of PDL and PNL, National Liberal presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis expressed his support for Predoiu as prime-minister.
In 2014, following the merger between PDL and PNL, he became First Vice President of PNL until an unification Congress in the summer of 2017. In the Romanian legislative election of 2016, Predoiu won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in Călărași on PNL's party list. In November 2019, after the ousting of Viorica Dăncilă's government in a no-confidence motion, Predoiu was reappointed Minister of Justice in the cabinet led by PNL leader Ludovic Orban. He served a 1-year term until Orban's resignation after the loss of the 2020 legislative elections and the appointment of Florin Cîțu to make a coalition government with the USR-PLUS and UDMR.
On 25 November 2021 he was reappointed Minister of Justice again, in the incumbent Ciucă Cabinet.
On 15 June 2023, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the Ciolacu cabinet. He maintained his position following the reshuffle after the 2024 Romanian parliamentary election.
On 6 May 2025, he was appointed by the interim President Ilie Bolojan to serve as interim Prime Minister until a new cabinet is sworn in following the resignation of Marcel Ciolacu in the aftermath of the 2025 Romanian presidential election.
Electoral history
Mayor of Bucharest
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| Election | Affiliation | First round | Second round | Votes | Percentage | Position | Votes | Percentage | Position | 2016 |
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References
References
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- (2025-05-06). "Romanian PM Ciolacu and party quit government after nationalist vote win".
- Hotnews.ro Dumitrina Galantonu 29 Feb. 2008 Catalin Marian Predoiu, noul ministru al Justitiei (in Romanian)
- {{in lang. ro[https://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/news/story/2008/02/080229_predoiu_propunere.shtml Cătălin Predoiu propus ministru al justiţiei], [[BBC News]], 29 February 2008
- {{in lang. ro [http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/793888/CATALIN-MARIAN-PREDOIU-noul-ministru-al-Justitiei/ Cătălin Marian Predoiu - noul ministru al justiţiei], [[Evenimentul Zilei]], 29 February 2007
- {{in lang. ro[https://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/news/story/2008/02/080229_predoiu_juramant.shtml Noul ministru al justiţiei depune jurământul], [[BBC News]], 29 February 2008
- [http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-arhiva-1214151-cross-lander-urmele-lui-nobel-ventures.htm "Cross Lander, pe urmele lui Nobel Ventures"], hotnews, August 20, 2005
- {{in lang. ro[https://www.bbc.co.uk/romanian/news/story/2008/03/080303_predoiu_profil.shtml Cătălin Predoiu a preluat mandatul de la Justiţie], [[BBC News]], 3 March 2008
- {{in lang. ro[http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-5199179-ministrul-catalin-predoiu-pierdut-duelul-justitiei-buzau.htm Ministrul Catalin Predoiu a pierdut duelul justitiei la Buzau], [[Hotnews]], 1 December 2008
- {{in lang. ro[http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-10603392-cum-ajuns-rva-insolvency-compania-care-fost-asociat-socrul-ministrului-predoiu-ofere-consultanta-tehnica-ministerului-justiei.htm Cum a ajuns RVA Insolvency, compania la care a fost asociat socrul ministrului Predoiu, sa ofere consultanta tehnica ministerului Justiei], [[Hotnews]], 3 November 2011
- [http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-politic-15634033-catalin-predoiu-prezinta-luni-bpn-guvernul-alternativa-pdl.htm "Guvernul din umbra al PDL: Predoiu, premier, Macovei - la Justitie, Ialomitianu la Finante"], ''[[Hotnews]]'', September 23, 2013
- [http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-politic-18049501-klaus-iohannis-dupa-castig-alegerile-voi-numi-catalin-predoiu-premier.htm "Klaus Iohannis: Dupa ce castig alegerile il voi numi pe Catalin Predoiu premier"], ''[[Hotnews]]'', September 6, 2014
- (6 May 2025). "Romanian PM resigns and pulls out of coalition after nationalist vote win".
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