Simona Bucura-Oprescu was sworn in as labor minister on Wednesday, replacing Marius Budai, who resigned following the nursing home scandal. Her appointment to the post seems somewhat surprising, given that Bucura-Oprescu is generally an economist with a career in local government, a field in which she has specialized since becoming an MP. Instead, her husband worked for a long time in institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Labor, so she could provide advice to her husband.

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In 2001, when she was only 21 years old, Simona Bukura married Mykhailo-Adrian Oprescu, who is now the Secretary General of the National Agency for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. For many years, both held positions in the state apparatus, but in different specializations, which only now intersected, since Simona Bucura-Oprescu became a minister.

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