 From 2000-2004, he worked as a pediatrician, and the chief physician at the Mehedinți County House for Social Health Insurance (CJASS).He became a member of the PNL in 1990, after the 1989 Revolution, and served as vice president of its Mehedinți County Organization after 1991, being its president between 1992 and 2005.He first became a member of the Senate after the 1996 Romanian legislative election, on Romanian Democratic Convention lists, and served as the Senate Quaestor.