Ioana Muntean was named on Monday the government's spokesperson, the institution's website informs. PM Boc signed on Monday the decree designating Ioana Muntean as state secretary in the Chancellery. Ioana Muntean graduated the Psychology Faculty at Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Central Romania and worked at the local PRO TV television up to February 2007 when she moved to PRO TV in Bucharest.

In early February, Boc named Democrat Liberal MEP Rares Niculescu as the institution's spokesperson but a week later, a local newspaper read that Niculescu and a couple of his friends were fined by local police officers in Cluj for stirring up a scandal in a local pub.