Senator Ioan Denes (PSD), the new minister of Waters and Forests

PSD leadership has proposed senator Ioan Denes to head the Ministry of Waters and Forests, after former minister Doina Pana resigned last week for health-related reasons.

Ioan Denes is 50 years old and he is on his second term in the Senate. Before becoming a senator, Denes had been a local counsellor for Beclean and for Bistrita County. He was a member of PNL until 2014, and then migrated to PSD.

He is a graduate of the Technical University of Cluj Napoca and a mechanical sub-engineer. He has worked as a teacher and as an electrician for CFR, and was commercial director in two companies.

Denes was criticised in 2017 for a statement he gave to the local press, saying that same-sex couples should not have the same rights as a heterosexual couple. At the time, PSD leader Liviu Dragnea said he did not agree with the senator and that PSD is a tolerant party that wants all people to respect each other.

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