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( Traian Basescu)
Traian Basescu (born November 4, 1951) is a Romanian politician and former Merchant Navy officer. He is the current President of Romania, inaugurated on December 20, 2004. He won the office in the 2004 presidential election. Prior to becoming President, he was the Mayor of Bucharest from June 2000 until December 2004. On April 19, 2007 the Romanian Parliament suspended Basescu.[1] As the Constitutional Court of Romania acknowledged the Parliament's vote on 20 April 2007,[2] Basescu remained suspended as president until a referendum which took place on May 19, 2007 confirmed that the impeachment should not stand. Basescu is the first president in the history of Romania who has been officially suspended. Basescu was born in Murfatlar, a village (later a small town) near Constanta, the largest Romanian port on the Black Sea. Basescu's father was an army officer named Dumitru (d. 2002); his mother is Elena (b. 1928). He has a brother, Mircea (b. 1953). He and his wife Maria have two daughters, Ioana and Elena. Ioana has a son named Andrei. Basescu graduated from the Naval Institute of Constanta in 1976 and became a Merchant Marine Officer at Navrom, the Romanian state-owned shipping company. Between 1981 and 1987 he worked as Captain on Romanian commercial ships, and in 1984 he was promoted to Captain of the oil tanker Biruinta, the largest ship of the Romanian fleet. In 1989, he moved to Belgium to head the Navrom Agency in Antwerp.
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