sentences:  In February 2015, President Klaus Iohannis nominated him to be director of the Romanian Intelligence Service; the following month, a joint session of Parliament confirmed him to the post on a 498–15 vote.A vice president of the PNL at the time, he subsequently resigned from the party, as required, and also from the European Parliament.He and his wife Andreea ("née" Dumitraș) have a daughter.