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Ion Iliescu turns 91 years old. The former president of Romania between 1990-1996 and 2000-2004 was born on March 3, 1930 in the municipality of Olteniţa, Călăraşi county.
In 1948, as a student, he was one of the founders of the Union of Romanian Student Associations. In 1956, he founded the Union of Romanian Student Associations, initially organized on the model of national student unions in European countries, as professional student organizations, according to his personal blog.
He completed his university studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute and at the Moscow Institute of Energy.
The photo gallery with unique historical images of Ion Iliescu is at the end of the article.
Between 1965 and 1984 he was a member of the Central Committee of the PCR. From 1955, he worked as a design engineer at the Bucharest Institute for Energy Studies and Design, and from 1979 to 1984, when he was fired for political reasons, he headed the National Water Council and participated in the development of large-scale projects. on the management and use of the country’s water resources, according to the work “Protagonists of public life” (National Press Agency, 1995).
Minister since the 1960s
Minister of Youth Affairs in Romania between 1967-1971, after which, for six months, he was secretary of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.
He held the position of vice president of the Timiş County Council, in the period 1971-1974, as well as that of president of the Iaşi County Council, in the years 1974-1979, says the cited document. During the 1980s he was president of the Romanian Kayak-Canoe Federation.
He was director of the Technical Publishing House in Bucharest between 1984 and December 22, 1989.
After the outbreak of the Romanian Revolution, on the night of December 22, 1989, he was called to head the new governing body of the Romanian state: the Council of the National Salvation Front, a body of provisional state power and, at the same time , an ad-hoc command with the mission of protecting and consolidating the victory of the revolution. He read, in the national radio and television stations, the Communiqué to the country, in whose preparation he participated.
At the end of January 1990, the National Salvation Front (FSN) was one of the founders of the political party, from which the Democratic Party and the Party of Social Democracy in Romania were structured.
He was president of the Provisional Council of the National Union from February 9, 1990 to June 20, 1990.
Elected president in May 1990 by 85.07%
On May 20, 1990, he was elected president of Romania during the Constituent Assembly, with 85.07% of the valid votes cast, being officially installed as president on June 20, 1990.
In the presidential elections of September 27, 1992, the first of its kind organized in accordance with the provisions of the new Constitution, Ion Iliescu ran for the Democratic Front for National Salvation and obtained the presidential mandate after the second round of elections. elections, organized on October 11, 1992. obtained 61.5% of the votes, being officially installed in office, for a period of four years, on October 30, 1992.
In the general elections of November 1996 he ran for the Party of Social Democracy in Romania, remaining in the second round of voting after the candidate for the Democratic Convention in Romania, Emil Constantinescu. At the same time, he ran on the Senate lists and became the leader of the PDSR parliamentary group in this House.
After winning the 2000 presidential elections with 66.83% of the votes, he swore allegiance to Parliament on December 20, 2000.
President of the PDSR (PSD), elected at the Extraordinary Conference of the PDSR on January 17, 1997, re-elected at the National Conference from June 20 to 21, 1997 and at the Conference of October 9 to 10, 1999. After the Assumption of the mandate of President of Romania, on December 20, 2000, resigned as leader of the PDSR.
On December 10, 2006, he was unanimously elected honorary president of the PSD, according to psd.ro.
Senator of the PDSR from Bucharest (1996-2000), but also in the 2004-2008 legislature, on the lists of the National Union PSD + PUR. In the 2008 parliamentary elections, he decided not to run for a new senator.
Married to Nina since 1951
Author of numerous studies, articles and communications published over time in specialized magazines, some of them published in the volume “Global Problems – Creativity” (Technical Ed., 1992).
Among the volumes published by Ion Iliescu are mentioned: “Revolution and reform” (two editions, 1993 and 1994), “Romania in Europe and the world” (1994), “The lived revolution” (two editions, 1995 and 1998) , “Moments of history” (volume I, 1995; volumes II and III, 1996), “Romanian-American dialogues” (1996), “Political life, between violence and dialogue” (1998), “Where – the society Romanian? “(1999),” The rebirth of hope “(2001),” The Romanian revolution “(2001),” Integration and globalization, the Romanian vision “(2002),” Romania and the world at the confluence of the twentieth centuries and XXI “(2009),” After 20 years – 1989 year of turn in national history and international life “(2010),” Fragments of life and lived history “(2011). In November 2014 he launched the volume “The fate of a leftist. Regards.”
He is a member of the Academy of Scientists and Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities in the country and abroad.
In 1971, he received the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic, class I. On October 24, 2012, he received the Emblem of Honor from the Romanian Army.
He has been married since 1951, his wife, Nina Iliescu (Elena Şerbănescu), is an engineer by profession, scientific researcher in the field of metal corrosion.
