 Daciana Sârbu is the daughter of Ilie Sârbu, a PSD member who served as Minister of Agriculture in the Adrian Năstase cabinet and held the same position in the Emil Boc cabinet; he was also President of the Senate in 2008.In October 2006, in China, she quietly wed the former Prime Minister of Romania, Victor Ponta.The couple's relationship had become serious in 2004, after Ponta's son was born.