Petre Roman
Petre Roman | |
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Roman in 1989 | |
| Prime Minister of Romania | |
| In office 26 December 1989 – 1 October 1991 Acting until 20 June 1990 | |
| President | Ion Iliescu |
| Preceded by | Constantin Dăscălescu |
| Succeeded by | Theodor Stolojan |
| Member of the National Salvation Front Council | |
| In office 22 December 1989 – 26 December 1989 | |
| President of the Senate of Romania | |
| In office 27 November 1996 – 22 December 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Oliviu Gherman |
| Succeeded by | Mircea Ionescu Quintus |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 22 December 1999 – 28 December 2000 | |
| Prime Minister | Mugur Isărescu |
| Preceded by | Andrei Pleșu |
| Succeeded by | Mircea Geoană |
| Member of the Senate of Romania | |
| In office 22 November 1996 – 12 December 2004 | |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 9 June 1990 – 31 July 1990 | |
| In office 6 October 1992 – 21 November 1996 | |
| In office 19 December 2012 – 9 February 2015 | |
| Co-Founding Leader of the National Salvation Front | |
| In office 22 December 1989 – 28 May 1993 | |
| Succeeded by | Himself (party renamed into the Democratic Party) |
| President of the Democratic Party | |
| In office 28 May 1993 – 19 May 2001 | |
| Succeeded by | Traian Băsescu |
| President of the Democratic Force | |
| In office 2003–2008 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 July 1946 Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (2020–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Romanian Communist Party (before 1989) National Salvation Front (1989–1993) Democratic Party (1993–2003) Democratic Force (2003–2008) National Liberal Party (2008–2017?) Social Liberal Platform (2020) |
| Spouses | Mioara Georgescu
(m. 1974–2007)Silvia Chifiriuc (m. 2009) |
| Alma mater | Politehnica University of Bucharest Paul Sabatier University |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Known for | Romanian Revolution |
| Signature | |
| a. ^ the party split on 7 April 1992: Ion Iliescu and his supporters formed the FDSN b. ^ Mazilu resigned from the leadership of FSN on 26 January 1990 | |
Petre Roman (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpetre ˈroman]; born 22 July 1946) is a Romanian engineer and politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma in the September 1991 Mineriad. Although regarded as the first Romanian prime minister since 1945 who was not a communist or communist sympathiser, he was a socialist. He later self-identified as a liberal. He was also the president of the Senate from 1996 to 1999 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000.
He was the leader of the Democratic Force (FD) party, which he founded after leaving the Democratic Party (PD) in 2003. He had previously served as an MP in the Lower Chamber, elected in 2012, elected as a member of the National Liberal Party. He had been removed from his seat in 2015 after being charged by the National Integrity Agency with incompatibility, but restored to office in 2016 after the Court of Appeals overturned the ruling. He is also a member of the Club of Madrid, a group of more than 80 democratic former statesmen, which works to strengthen democratic governance and leadership. In the early 2020 he joined Ilan Laufer's Social Liberal Platform, but he left it shortly afterwards. He joined the Social Democratic Party and was elected in the General Council of Bucharest in 2020, but he resigned shortly afterwards.
In 2022, Petre Roman emigrated to Switzerland, in order to become the president of the Swiss UMEF (university of applied sciences institute).