At the age of 95, former Romanian President Ion Ion Ion Ion, who was the head of state in a chaotic transition from communism to democracy, died on Tuesday. This was announced by the Romanian government and expressed his condolences to Iliescu’s family and his loved ones. Details of the state funeral will be announced in the coming days. TASR informs this based on the AFP report.
In June of this year Illiescu underwent in Bucharest surgery in connection with lung cancer. Died during subsequent treatment for multiple organ failure.
In the era of Communism, Iliesca was a member of the Parliament (1957 – 1985) several times and 1965 to 1984 a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania. From 1967 to 1971 he was a member of the Youth and 1979 – 1980 a member of the State Council, the Supreme Authority of the State power.
In the 1970s, he fell into disfavour and the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceašescu gradually shut him down to the siding. He came to power during the anti -communist uprising in December 1989. He took the head of the Front of National Salvation (FSN), which was in the first weeks after the fall of the Communist regime by the management body of Romania and later turned into a political party.
In May 1990 he became the first democratically elected President of Romania and in 1992 he was re -elected for a four -year term. He did not succeed in the 1996 elections, but four years later he returned to the Presidential Palace.
During the Ilies’ third and at the same time the last term of office Romania entered NATO in 2004 and signed an agreement to the European Union, whose member became 1 January 2007.
Over the past two decades, Iliesca has faced allegations of committing crimes against humanity in connection with violence during the revolution. The last time he appeared in 2017 when He was accused of alleged participation to kill 862 people at a time when he led FSN as well as the spread of misinformation.
He was also accused of calling miners from the Jiu Valley to suppress student protests after his election in 1990, In which six people lost their lives. Iliescu who denied any mistake, however In neither case, he did not put it to justice.
