Orest Onofrei

Orest Onofrei (born 17 March 1957 in Marginea, Suceava County, Romania) is a Romanian veterinarian and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), he represented Suceava County in the Chamber of Deputies from December 2004 to February 2005, and has been a Senator for the same county since December 2008.

Political career

In January 2005, he was named prefect of Suceava County.[1] In April 2008, he was dismissed from his job of prefect and named subprefect of the same county. Meanwhile, in November 2004 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), serving until his resignation early the following year.[2] In August 2008, he resigned and decided to run in the 2008 election on a PDL ticket,[3] winning a Senate seat in a Suceava County district.[4]

He was nominated in 2009 to be part of the second Emil Boc Cabinet, but soon after, he resigned from this office after the press began revealing information about a car accident in which he was involved. Onofrei explained his decision by saying he did not want to put the President or the Prime Minister in a difficult situation.[5]

Car accident

In June 2002, while driving above the legal speed limit through Cleja village, Bacău County, he hit and killed an 8-year-old child, Paul Hădărag. In 2006, he was sentenced to a suspended prison term of one year.[6][7] He appealed and the sentence was overturned in 2007.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Guvernul a numit prefectii", 8 January 2005, Evenimentul Zilei
  2. ↑ (in Romanian) Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site
  3. ↑ "Subprefectul de Suceava, Orest Onofrei, a demisionat şi candidează din partea PD-L pentru Senat", Cotidianul, 28 August 2008
  4. ↑ "Noii parlamentari", Evenimentul Zilei, 2 December 2008
  5. 1 2 "EXCLUSIV: Orest Onofrei, desemnat pentru portofoliul Agriculturii, vrea să renunţe la funcţie", Mediafax, 19 December 2009
  6. ↑ "Primul prefect al Aliantei, condamnat la inchisoare", Cotidianul, 23 February 2006
  7. ↑ "Prefectul, un an de inchisoare cu suspendare", Evenimentul Zilei, 23 February 2006
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