Petre Roman
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Petre Roman (b. July 22, 1946 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician, former Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma.
He was also the president of the Senate from 1996 to 1999 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000. He is now leader of the Democratic Force party, which he founded after leaving the Democratic Party in 2003.
His father, Valter Roman, of Transylvanian Jewish descent, was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and a prominent member of the Romanian Communist Party. His mother Hortensia was a Spanish Comintern activist. The couple married in Moscow.
Roman first rose to prominence during the Romanian Revolution of 1989, when he was among the crowd occupying the National Television building, and broadcasting messages expressing revolutionary triumph.
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