 He was also strategy coordinator for the new PD-L, and co-authored its programme for the 2008 election.Between 2005 and 2006, he served in the Tăriceanu cabinet, until being compelled to resign by party leader Boc and President Traian Băsescu, partly as a means of putting pressure on Tăriceanu's PNL.He was then offered the position of Bucharest city manager, but declined, returning instead to the marble business.