Energy Minister Toma Petcu announced on Friday in the ALDE Central Political Bureau meeting that he resigns for personal reasons, Agerpres announced. He will be replaced by deputy Anton Anton, informed party sources.

68, Anton Anton is a PhD engineer, a graduate of the Polytechnic Institute “Traian Vuia” in Timisoara, the Faculty of Mechanics. Since 1972 he has been teaching and research at the Bucharest Institute of Construction.

Anton Anton is a member of the Standing Committee on Education, Science, Youth and Sport (June 2017), the Standing Committee on Information Technology and Communications, and Chairman of the Space Subcommittee.

Of the 19 legislative proposals he has put forward, only two have some relevance to the energy field: the legislative proposal on the organization and functioning of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (now, in the Senate) and the legislative proposal on the establishment of the Sovereign Development and Investment Fund (under debate in the parliamentary committees). Since December 2016, as a deputy, Anton Anton has had 9 speeches in plenary. On October 17, 2017, he supported the idea that RADET would take over ELCEN: “Let’s try to move from energy production – and thus, in a subsidiary way to produce heat for Bucharest – to what is called, between quotation marks, cogeneration, that is, to do thermal energy for Bucharest and, additionally, to increase the efficiency of the system, to produce electricity. This is the pattern we have successfully applied throughout the country. And Focsani is only an example. There are many cities that have done this, they have united the energy producer with the heat distributor. Only in Bucharest there is a fence between producer and distributor, and there is some money negotiating on that fence: you owe me that and that. I welcome this initiative, and above all, I welcome it because it opens up the possibility for others to solve this problem.”