Mugur Mihăescu

Mugur Mihăescu
Mihăescu in 2025
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 December 2024
ConstituencyOlt County
Personal details
Born (1967-06-02) 2 June 1967
Olt County, Romania
Political partyAlliance for the Union of Romanians
OccupationActor, screenwriter and politician

Mugur Mihăescu (born 2 June 1967) is a Romanian actor and politician. He began his career in 1988 with the comedy group Vacanța Mare. Together with the band, he performed in various places in Romania. Since 1999, Vacanța Mare began making shows for Pro TV with "Pastila Timpului". Mihăescu starred in the films Garcea și oltenii, where he played two roles, and Trei fratî de belea.

Business

In 2010, Mihăescu purchased the management rights of the Muzica store in Bucharest for 1.7 million euros.[1] In February of that year, Mihăescu together with Honorius Prigoană founded the company Rosal Development, in the field of civil and industrial construction abroad.[2]

Mihăescu is the owner several bars in Bucharest's historic Old Town sector.[3] He is married to Rodica.[4][5]

Political activity

In February 2011, Mihăescu was elected as the executive president of the Romanian Green Party,[6] resigned in October of that year.[7] In the 2024 local elections in Romania on 9 June, he ran for the presidency of the Olt County Council, representing the Alliance for the Union of Romanians party.

Member of the Chamber of Deputies (2024–present)

In the 2024 parlamentary election on 1 December, Mihăescu ran again for the AUR party and was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Olt County, taking office on 21 December.[8] He is part of the Parliament's Committee on Entrepreneurship and Tourism.[9] Upon his election, Libertatea described Mihăescu as among the more "exotic personalities" of the new parliament.[10]

A June 2025 review by Europa Liberă showned him to be one of 17 MPs to own properties in Bucharest or Ilfov County while also receiving rent payments from the state.[11]

Relation to the Securitate

On 30 November 2013, due to his status as a candidate for the mayoralty of Bucharest's Sector 5, Mihăescu was investigated by the National Council for the Study of Security Archives (CNSAS), in order to clarify his connections with the political security in communist Romania. CNSAS published the list of the people checked, and Mihăescu's name appears on this list, with the mention Military counterintelligence during the communist regime in Romania.[12]

References

  1. ^ Simina Mistreanu (20 May 2010). "Ambiția lui Mugur Mihăescu în afaceri: Lumea să zică "Precis e a lui Garcea"". Wallstreet.ro.
  2. ^ "Honorius Prigoană și Mugur Mihăescu de la Vacanța Mare se fac investitori în străinătate". Gândul. 21 April 2010.
  3. ^ Povestea din spatele scenei a lui Mugur Mihăescu, alias Garcea: turnător la Securitate, politician eșuat și mitingist anticarantină, adevarul.ro, 14 July 2020
  4. ^ Pirvu, Cristina (8 March 2024). "Imagini cu casa în care locuiește Mugur Mihăescu cu soția. Estimată la 800.000 de euro, vila are gazon pe acoperiș". Libertatea. Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  5. ^ Stamen, Diana (29 March 2023). "Cum se înțelege Mugur Mihăescu cu iubitul fiicei sale: "Zici că e fratele meu". Actorul are o relație specială cu Ivona". Libertatea. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  6. ^ Raluca Pantazi, Victor Cozmei (3 March 2011). "Cum s-au reactivat "verzii" din România și cine sunt ei". Hotnews.
  7. ^ Mugur Mihăescu a demisionat din Partidul Verde, 2 octombrie 2011, Romulus Georgescu, Adevărul, accesat la 10 ianuarie 2011
  8. ^ "Parlamentul României după alegerile din 2024: Cum vor fi distribuite mandatele de senatori și deputați". Argeș Express. 10 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Deputatul AUR Mugur Mihăescu "Garcea" va face parte din Comisia pentru antreprenoriat și turism - HotNews.ro" (in Romanian). 20 December 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  10. ^ Eremia, Radu (11 December 2024). "Personajele exotice din noul Parlament: de la membra AUR găsită cu gloanțe în Casa Poporului la șoferul din POT ajuns deputat printre străini". Libertatea. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  11. ^ Borcea, Ștefan (12 June 2025). "Cum fentează parlamentarii cu domiciliul în Capitală statul român. Mugur Mihăescu are casă de 800 de mp, dar primește bani de chirie". Adevărul. Archived from the original on 12 June 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  12. ^ "George Simion (Președinte AUR) "Domnul Mugur Mihăescu nu a fost colaborator al securității"". Factual.ro. 8 May 2025. Archived from the original on 12 May 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2025.

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