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Romania Declares National Mourning Following Death of Ion Iliescu at 95

The government has set August 7 as a day of mourning with state funeral details pending following his death from lung cancer

Estuvo a cargo del poder durante la transición democrática rumana, tras el derrocamiento de Nicolae Ceausescu
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Overview

  • Ion Iliescu died on August 5 in Bucharest’s Agrippa Ionescu Hospital after a two-month battle with lung cancer.
  • The government has designated August 7 as a national day of mourning in his honor.
  • A vigil will be held Wednesday at the Presidential Palace and a state burial is scheduled at Ghencea 3 military cemetery the following day.
  • Iliescu served as Romania’s first democratically elected president from 1990 to 1996 and again from 2000 to 2004.
  • His tenure brought a 2003 constitutional revision and Romania’s 2004 accession to NATO and EU treaties, but he faced untried charges over the 1990 protest violence.