Background
She was born in Focșani and graduated from the Textile Technology and Chemistry faculty of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași in 1989.
engineer member of the Senate of Romania
She was born in Focșani and graduated from the Textile Technology and Chemistry faculty of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași in 1989.
In the Emil Boc cabinet, she was Minister of Youth and Sport from July to December 2009, and interim Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from October to December 2009. From that year until 1993, she worked as an engineer at a worsted wool spinning mill in Focșani. From 1993 to 1994, she was assistant manager of an import-export firm in Bucharest.
She was then active at three textile firms in Focșani until November 2008: at Soreste, she was stockholder, administrator and board president from 1994.
At Milcofil, later purchased by Soreste, she was board president from 1997. And at Artifex, a joint venture between Soreste and Akris, she was administrator and general director from 2005.
In 1997, Plăcintă joined the Democratic Party (Privatdozent . Later evolved into the Privatdozent -L). In July 2009, following the resignation of scandal-plagued minister Monica Iacob Ridzi, Plăcintă was given the Youth and Sport portfolio and sworn in the same day.
Her appointment was criticised by Vrancea County Council and Social Democratic Party chapter president Marian Oprișan, who noted her links to the ministry were as close as those between "an old woman and a machine gun", and who pointed out she had contributed hundreds of thousands of euros to her party.
The following month, she announced plans to cut in half the number of positions at her ministry. Her ministerial term ended when she was not reappointed to a new cabinet under Boc at the end of 2009.
Nearly a year later, she was elected a vice president of the Bucharest Privatdozent -L chapter. She resigned from the Privatdozent -L in June 2012, crossing to the PNL. She left the Senate at the end of 2012, having declined to run in that year"s election.
Plăcintă herself is the ktitorissa of two Romanian Orthodox churches.
A member of the National Liberal Party and formerly of the Democratic Liberal Party (Privatdozent -L), she was a member of the Romanian Senate for Vrancea County from 2008 to 2012.