The joint plenary session of Parliament approved on Wednesday Adriana Saftoiu as president and director general of the Romanian Television Broadcasting Corporation, with 230 votes in favor and one against.

The parliamentary groups of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians previously left the session in which the new presidents and directors general of the Romanian Television Broadcasting Corporation and of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation were to be voted on.

AUR Senate floor leader Petrisor Peiu announced before the vote that his party's lawmakers would not participate, invoking Article 1 of the Constitution on the rule of law. He argued that the law had not been respected in the designation of the Boards of Directors of the two media institutions.

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Born September 11, 1967 in Dej, Cluj County, Ana Adriana Saftoiu earned a degree from the Faculty of Letters, Romanian-Spanish Department of the University of Bucharest (1992). She attended political journalism courses in Sofia, Bulgaria (1995); journalism courses at the 'Black Sea' Summer University (1995-1996); a postgraduate course at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, University of Bucharest (1998); held a public relations scholarship offered by, IRI (USA, 2000).

She worked as a journalist at news agencies Agerpres (1993-1996) and Mediafax (1996-1998).

Between 1998-2000 she served as Secretary of State - government spokesperson. She was Director of Cabinet with the Transport Ministry (2000-2001); advisor at RENITRON 2000 (2001-2004); director at Capital PROMOTION (2007-2008).

In the 2004 legislative elections, she was elected MP on the D.A. Alliance ticket. She resigned on December 22, 2004 and took over as presidential advisor (2004-2007).

In the 2008 legislative elections, Saftoiu won an MP seat on the PNL ticket. She resigned on February 1, 2012.

She won a third term as a deputy following the parliamentary elections of December 11, 2016.

She was director of the PD Press Office (2001-2004); PDL spokesperson (2013); PNL first vice-president, and spokesperson (2015); first vice-president of the PNL Bucharest branch (2016).

She wrote the books 'Vocile puterii' (Voices of Power) (2007); 'Jurnal de campanie' (Campaign Log) (2009); 'Cronica de Cotroceni' (The Cotroceni Chronicle) (2015); 'Simfonia semnelor' (Symphony of Signs) (2022).

She was a communication trainer at Strategist AS (2012-2015) and at PFA Saftoiu Ana Adriana (2015-2016). AGERPRES (RO - writing by: Catalina Matei; EN - writing by: Simona Klodnischi)