Constantin Niță

In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Business Environment from 2008 to 2009.

[2] Niță has co-written five books on marketing and tourism, written one, and published over 50 articles in specialty magazines.

From 1990 to 1993 he was director of the Pîrîul Rece resort there, and from 1993 to 1997 he led an agency coordinating protocol visits to the Prahova Valley.

[6] Also that year, his name appeared on recordings of telephone conversations held by Sicilian Mafia bosses, who referred to him as being linked to their representative in Romania;[7] Niță categorically denied having links to the Mafia[8] and sued former President Emil Constantinescu for making the transcripts public.

[10] As minister, Niță predicted that nearly 40% of Romania's small and medium-sized businesses could go bankrupt due to the financial crisis;[11] his priorities included unfreezing credits for them, simplifying their paperwork for obtaining European Union grants and devoting 0.4% of GDP to helping them and creating jobs there, and restructuring his ministry.

At the same time, he quit his posts within the national party and announced he would not seek another term in the Chamber at the autumn election.