Freshly sworn-in director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE), Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu said there will be "excellent institutional cooperation" between him and President Iohannis

Asked about the kind of collaboration with President Iohannis, Mr. Ungureanu said the President is also chairman of the Supreme Council for National Defence (CSAT) and "there will be excellent institutional collaboration", local Agerpres reports.

As far as his relationship with Prime Minister Victor Ponta is concerned, he said he will have a very good institutional collaboration "with anyone that may be the prime minister because the prime minister is the deputy chair of the CSAT."

Asked whether or not he will resign his senatorial seat, he said he is under an obligation to resign. 

"There are very many procedural things to be solved, and, with the vote and all that means parliamentary procedure, it is normal for my obligation to resign my senatorial seat of Arad".

Mihai Razvan Ungureanu on Tuesday was voted in office by Parliament, 278 to 6, out of 284 valid votes.

Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, Nominated the New Head of Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service

Former prime minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu is nominated again for the office of director of SIE - Romania's Foreign Intelligence Service, reads a release of the Presidential Administration.

The Presidential Administration points out that, according to the Constitution provisions, the head of state informed the chairs of the two Chambers of Parliament of this nomination and the Legislature is going to adopt a decision in this respect.

Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu. Photo: anchetatorul.ro.

46 yo politician Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu held the same office between 2007 and 2012, under the office tenure of former President Traian Basescu.

Before that, M. R. Ungureanu has held several offices, among them foreign minister (December 2004 — March 2007).

Mr. Ungureanu was prime minister February-May 2012, in April the same year he shortly held the office of interim environment and forestry minister.

In the parliamentary election of December 9, 2012, he became senator on the lists of Right Romania Alliance (ARD) in Arad, western Romania.

After President Klaus Iohannis was elected, Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu became his personal adviser. In the National Liberal Party (PNL) he holds the first vice-president chair.