Culture Minister Vlad Alexandrescu is not resigning anymore, but waits to be removed from Office, realitatea.net reports.
PM Ciolos had announced sent on Tuesday to President Klaus Iohannis the papers for removal from office of minister Alexandrescu and the new nomination of Corina Suteu (photo), the former Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York. Suteu is currently secretary of state with the Ministry of Culture.
“Today is my last day as Minister of Culture. The Prime Minister has announced he would remove me from office today (on Tuesday – our note). I wish the reform would go further on and I do hope the Premier takes the wisest decision. The PM’s decision is sovereign and I respect it,” Vlad Alexandrescu said on Tuesday morning.
Culture minister Vlad Alexandrescu announced on Facebook last Wednesday that he had filed his resignation. Few hours earlier, sources unveiled that PM Dacian Ciolos had asked minister Alexandrescu to resign over the Opera scandal.
Who is Corina Suteu?
Corin Suteu has been secretary of state with the Culture ministry since early this year. During 2006-2012, when the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) was led by Horia Roman Patapievici, Corina Suteu was director of ICR New York, enjoying a consistent support for cultural innovative and independent initiatives. She was heading the ICR New York during the “pink swastika pony” row, a controversial project by the Institute’s branch in NY. Suteu reisgned from office when Patapievici was replaced by Andrei Marga at the helm of ICR.
She began her career as theatre critic. In 1991 she became director of the UNITER Theatre Union in Romania while in 1995 she was appointed director of Mastere Specialisee Europeen en Management des entreprises culturalles (Dijon, France) and president of the European cultural networks Forum.
Suteu published in Amsterdam the “Arts Politics and Change” book, following the “Policies for culture” programme and launched the “Another Brick in the Wall, a Critical Overview of Cultural Management in Europe” volume at Columbia University.
The new Culture minister proposal was involved in various cultural projects, with the latest being “Bucharest- the 2021 European capital of culture.”