Dambovita county will have 3 senators and 6 deputies. Among them will be Victor Ponta, who secured a seat in the next Parliament after opening the PSD list, a party that won the county.
Former prime minister and ex-social Democratic leader Victor Ponta was in the top of the list of PSD Dambovita candidates for the Chamber of Deputies, the proposal being validated at the extraordinary conference oin octomber. "I was getting tired of being the former, the former prime minister, the former president (of PSD, ed.), the former... now if you tell me the future deputy of Dambovita, I will feel very good!", Ponta told the nearly 500 delegates attending the PSD Dambovita conference. He noted that although he had had many political victories, he also learned a lot from defeats, which gave him valuable experience in his career. These life lessons helped him shape his perspectives on politics and adapt his approaches to challenges.
"I also wrote a speech, I also received a message last night: 'see that tomorrow you have a speech at Dambovita, see what you say'. I say: ‘yes, Mr. Prime Minister, I know what I say, I say what I must, but I say what I think too’ (...). I am old in politics too, but I have not only had victories, I have also had defeats and I had to learn more from defeats than from victories,” Victor Ponta said in the opening of the speech. A significant aspect of his speech was the connection he made after talking with the current leader of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, who encouraged him to return to the political arena.
In 2004, Victor Ponta became one of the youngest Romanian parliamentarians, being elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies. Since December 2004 he is PSD deputy of Gorj, and following the parliamentary elections of November 2008, Victor Ponta is elected for the second time MP of Gorj.
Following the fall of the Ungureanu government, as a result of the adoption of the censure motion proposed by the Social Liberal Union, in May 2012, Victor Ponta was sworn in as prime minister of Romania and at the head of the government, thus becoming the youngest prime minister in Europe.[29]
Among the government measures taken by Prime Minister Victor Ponta from the first days of taking office are: increasing the salaries of the budget workers up to their level in 2010, the staggered return of Health Insurance contributions (which were withheld from pensioners during the previous governments — Boc and Ungureanu — through a normative act declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court) and the suspension of the previous government's decision on the establishment of a Hungarian-language section at the University of Medicine and pharmacy in Targu Mures. The Ponta Government also suspended prefects appointed by previous governments from office.
In 2002 President Ion Iliescu appointed him a knight of the National Order "Faithful Service". In 2004 he was awarded the italian Order Of The Star of Solidarity.
