Ilie Verdeţ
Ilie Verdeţ (born May 10, 1925 in Comăneşti, Bacău District, March 20, 2001 in Bucharest) is a Romanian Communist politician and Prime Minister of Romania from 1979-1982.
From the age of 12 he worked as a miner, and in 1945 he joined the Communist Party of Romania. He graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economics, then began to climb the ranks of the Communist Party. From the beginning of the 1960s he worked in the central office of the Communist Party. He was responsible for organizing parties and party meetings. After the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Deja (1965) helped Nicolae Ceauşescu get the post of party chief. Soon he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the NRP. 1966-1974 was Deputy Prime Minister, and from 29 March 1979 to 21 May 1982 the Prime Minister of Romania. After the fall of Ceauşescu in December 1989, he was declared Prime Minister of the Interim Government, but after 20 minutes he was removed by Ion Iliescu, leader of the National Salvation Front. In 1990 he founded the Socialist Labor Party (Partidul Socialist al Muncii), which in 1992 had barely entered the parliament in the elections, but in the next parliamentary elections did not gain a single place. He headed the party he founded until 2000, when he was removed from the post as a result of an internal election. He died of a heart attack. Bibliography
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