Victor Viorel Ponta is a Romanian politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 2012 to 2015. He was president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 2010 to 2015, and joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County from 2004 to 2020, and was returned to a Dâmbovița County seat in 2024.
- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, prosecutor, jurist
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Romania, Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Minister of Relations with the Parliament, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
- Citizenship
- Romania, Serbia
- Born
