Petre Roman

Petre Roman
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
President of the Senate
In office
November 1996 – February 2000
President Emil Constantinescu
Prime Minister Victor Ciorbea
Gavril Dejeu
Radu Vasile
Alexandru Athanasiu
Preceded by Oliviu Gherman
Succeeded by Mircea Ionescu Quintus
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
22 December 1999 – 28 December 2000
President Emil Constantinescu
Prime Minister Mugur Isărescu
Preceded by Andrei Pleşu
Succeeded by Mircea Geoană
Personal details
Born 22 July 1946 (1946-07-22) (age 65)
Bucharest, Romania
Political party National Liberal Party (2008–present)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic Liberal Party (1991– 2003)
Democratic Force (2003–2008)
Spouse(s) Mioara Georgescu (1974–2007)
Silvia Chifiriuc (2009–present)
Profession Engineer
Religion Romanian Orthodoxy

Petre Roman (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈpetre ˈroman]; born 22 July 1946 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician and a former Prime Minister of Romania. He served from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma. Roman is a member of the Club of Madrid, grouping 66 democratic former heads of state and government. He was also the president of the Senate from 1996 to 1999 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000. He was leader of the Democratic Force party, which he founded after leaving the Democratic Party in 2003. Currently he is a member of the National Liberal Party, being a candidate for PNL for the Senate on the 43rd constituency, for Romanians outside Romania.

Background

His father, Valter Roman, born Ernst or Ernő Neuländer of Transylvanian Jewish descent, was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a Comintern activist, and a prominent member of the Romanian Communist Party. His mother Hortensia Vallejo was of Spanish origin. The couple married in Moscow, and he has several siblings. In 1974 Roman married Mioara Georgescu, with whom he has a daughter, Oana. In February 2007, husband and wife confirmed that they were divorcing; the divorce was made final on Good Friday, 6 April 2007. In June 2009, he married a pregnant Silvia Chifiriuc in a Romanian Orthodox wedding.[1]

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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Political offices
Preceded by
Constantin Dăscălescu
Prime Minister of Romania
Acting: 1989–1990

1989–1991
Succeeded by
Theodor Stolojan