[6] The first Education Minister since the 1989 Revolution not to have been a professor or researcher, he owed his rise through the PNL and to the position to his mentor, the businessman and politician Relu Fenechiu, with whom he collaborated at several firms.
[2] A month after becoming minister, he was involved in a gaffe during a visit to a Brăila school, where he insisted before a group of 5th graders, their protests notwithstanding, that the flag of Europe has 15 stars and not 12.
For the civil marriage, because a cabinet meeting had run late and his bride was waiting at Iași City Hall, he was taken from Bucharest to the Iași area on an Interior Ministry helicopter flight that included his colleague, Cristian David, who was on an unplanned work visit to Albița.
[1][10][11] In the meantime, Tăriceanu had dismissed Adomniței, officially because of the latter's failure to monitor debates and express the government's negative viewpoint in parliamentary committees that led to the adoption of a law raising teacher salaries.
He also deemed the helicopter incident "unacceptable" and mentioned that there was an accumulated series of matters that led to the dismissal, which was welcomed by the teachers' unions with whom Adomniţei had been embroiled in conflict.