Gabriela Firea

Gabriela Firea
Firea in 2014
Minister of Family, Youth and Equality of Opportunity
In office 25 November 2021 – 14 July 2023
Prime Minister	Nicolae Ciucă
Preceded by	Office established
General Mayor of Bucharest
In office 23 June 2016 – 29 October 2020
Preceded by	Răzvan Sava (Acting)
Succeeded by	Nicușor Dan
Member of the Senate of Romania
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 December 2020
Constituency	Bucharest
In office 19 December 2012 – 22 June 2016
Constituency	Ilfov County
Government Press secretary
In office January 2000 – 28 December 2000
Prime Minister	Mugur Isărescu
Personal details
Born	(1972-07-13) 13 July 1972 (age 51) Bacău, Bacău County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Political party	Social Democratic Party (2012–present)
Spouse(s)	Răsvan Firea ​ ​ (m. 1993; died 2010)​ Florentin Pandele [ro] ​ ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Bucharest Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies
Occupation	Journalist, writer, politician
Profession	Philologist, economist

Gabriela Firea (born Gabriela Vrânceanu, 13 July 1972) is a Romanian journalist and politician who served as mayor of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, between 2016 and 2020.

At the June 2016 local election, Firea was elected the first female mayor of Bucharest.^[1] She won 43% from the total of only 33% citizens of Bucharest who went to vote at that time. 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.^[2] Subsequently, she lost the position of mayor of Bucharest at the 2020 local elections, in which she finished second behind incumbent Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan (then an independent candidate supported by the 2020 USR-PLUS Alliance and the National Liberal Party).