Cozmin Gușă

Cozmin Horea Gușă (born 2 July 1970) is a Romanian physicist, journalist, and politician. A member of the National Initiative Party (PIN), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2004 to 2008.

He has been married since 1994 and has a son and a daughter.

Biography He was born in Câmpia Turzii and attended the Physics faculty of Babeș-Bolyai University from 1989 to 1994. He also took classes in mass-media management in the United States (1997–1998) and a class in international economic negotiation at the École nationale d'administration in France (2002). He holds a 2006 doctorate in Management from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, and since 2007 has been working on a doctorate in Geopolitics at the University of Bucharest. From 1994 to 1996, he headed a national press wholesaler, followed by a stint (1996–1997) as head of the editorial division at Radio Sonic in Cluj-Napoca. From 1997 to 1998, he headed the newspaper Știrea, holding a similar position from 1998 to 2001 at the Jurnalul Național, also working during that time at Antena 1. From 2001 to 2003, he was president of the Association for the Promotion of Young People. he remained its president until 2008. Gușă was elected head of the PD group in the Chamber of Deputies, but the party leadership invalidated the vote on a technicality. Some party leaders accused him of trying to take over the leadership. and founded the National Initiative Party (PIN); he sat as an independent for the remainder of his term. The party failed to win any seats at the 2007 European Parliament election, prompting Gușă to resign from the leadership, but he was soon re-elected party president. He ran for Mayor of Bucharest in June 2008, coming in fifth place with 5.76% of the vote. His party did not run candidates at the 2008 legislative election later that year, knowing it did not have a realistic chance of winning, and Gușă declined an invitation to run from the Cluj County PSD, preferring to focus on business. In January 2009, he announced his "temporary" withdrawal from political life,

Gușă has been a critic of Romanian President Ion Iliescu, toward whom Jurnalul Național had an "extremely virulent attitude" while Gușă was there (in turn, in March 2009, Iliescu threatened to resign from the PSD if party leader Mircea Geoană took on Gușă, whom he labelled an "interloper" and a "mercenary", as an adviser ) and, once they broke with each other, of Traian Băsescu, whom he called a "hypocrite" who "mocks the Constitution" months after the split, and whom he accused of wishing to dismantle the National Anticorruption Directorate once Geoană went ahead and named him an adviser on campaign strategy for Transylvania. Gușă has himself held presidential ambitions, announcing he would run in the event the 2007 referendum to impeach Băsescu (which he backed, citing "serious constitutional violations" by the President) had succeeded. In part, he wished to block the rise of Gigi Becali, who had already declared he would run.