About Victor Ponta:
Victor-Viorel Ponta is a Romanian jurist and politician who currently serves as Prime Minister of Romania since being appointed by President Traian B?sescu in May 2012. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader from 2010 to 2015, he was also joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County since 2004. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.