Her closest political contenders, more specifically Nicușor Dan (Save Bucharest Union) and Cătălin Predoiu (National Liberal Party), gained only 30.5% and 11.2% respectively.

[5] A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), she was elected to the Romanian Senate in 2012 for an Ilfov County seat.

She continued with postgraduate and academic training at the Academy of Economic Studies (ASE), specialising in 'International currency and fiscal mechanisms, Banking and stock exchange management', as well as a brokerage course.

[10] She has started her career in the press in 1990, being a reporter for the weekly "Simply" in Bacău, and then for the daily Azi in Bucharest, in 1991–1992.

Since September 2008 she has held the position of general manager of Financial Week magazine,[13] after having previously been the editorial director of the publication since its inception in March 2005.

She received the debut award from the Bucharest Writers Association in 2001, for the volume of poems "Another World".

[17] In December 2009, together with Simona Gherghe, she released the folk music album Trandafiri de la Moldova.

On 10 February 2016, she was appointed by the PSD National Executive Committee to coordinate the Bucharest branch, as interim president, to prepare for the local elections.