Costică Canacheu (born October 15, 1958) is a Romanian politician and businessman of
Aromanian descent. A participant in the
1989 Revolution, he started his political career as a member of the
National Salvation Front (FSN), representing its successor, the
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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(PD) to the
Chamber of Deputies. Additionally, Canacheu is an activist supporting the official recognition of the Aromanians as an
ethnic minority, being a founding member of the Aromanian Community Association ( ro, Asociaţia Comunităţii Aromânilor din România, ACAR) and the Aromanian Cultural Society (''Societatea Culturală Aromână'';
Aromanian: ''Sutsata Culturala Armâneascâ'').
Biography
Born to an
Aromanian family in
Budești,
Călărași County
Călărași () is a county (județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Călărași.
Demographics
In 2011, it had a population of 285,050 and a population density of 56.02/km2.
* Romanians – 95%
...
, Canacheu graduated from the Electro-Energetic High School in
Bucharest
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, and worked as a
technician
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Specialisation
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between 1978 and 1989.
[Profile at the Chamber of Deputies site]
/ref> Between 1993 and 2000, he was head of the Administrative Board for a Bucharest-based private enterprise, SC Neico Grup SA.
He was an active participant in the Bucharest protests that led to the fall of the Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He ...
Communist government
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(December 1989),[ Răzvan Brăileanu]
"Disidenţă, revoluţie, GDS" ("Dissidence, Revolution, GDS"), interview with Radu Filipescu
, in '' 22'', January 2004 and took part in the establishment of the FSN during February 1990, serving as a member of the FSN-based administration (CFSN, later CPUN) in Sector 1 of the capital, and later as a member of the FSN Directory Council. In the 1990 election, Canacheu won a seat in the Constituent Assembly
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for Bucharest. In this capacity, he notably initiated a legislative project regarding parliamentary control over intelligence agencies (namely, Serviciul Român de Informaţii
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, SRI) and their archives.
In the early 1990s, Canacheu was among a group of former revolutionaries who, citing concerns that granting revolutionary certificates and privileges had become an instrument of corruption, formed the non-governmental organization
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''Asociaţia Revoluţionarilor fără Privilegii'' (the Association of Non-Privileged Revolutionaries); other members include Ion Caramitru
Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru, OBE (; 9 March 1942 – 5 September 2021) was a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabi ...
, Dan Pavel
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, Victor Rebengiuc
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Since 1957, he has been a member of the Bulandra Theater company, acting in more th ...
, and Radu Filipescu
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.
Following the September 1991 Mineriad, he joined Petre Roman
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's FSN faction which became, in 1995, the Democratic Party, and was its Executive Director for Organizing during the 1992 legislative election. Canacheu was head of the Municipal Electoral Committee in Bucharest (1994-1996), and, in late 1996, headed the campaign in favor of Anton Vătăşescu for the office of Mayor of Bucharest
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(Vătăşescu had received support from ''Uniunea Social-Democrată'', USD, an alliance between the PD and the Romanian Social Democratic Party). Between 1997 and 1999, he was a member of the PD's Directory Council, and, from 1999 to 2001, head of the PD's Sector 1 branch. A member of the PD's Municipal Organization, Canacheu became a member of the party's National Coordinating Council (2000-2002) and the Executive Secretary of its National Permanent Bureau (2002).
He became a PD deputy for Bucharest following the 2000 legislative election, and won the same seat as part of the Justice and Truth alliance during the 2004 election. Serving on the Committee for Defense, Public Order and National Security, of which he was president, Canacheu was also deputy member of the Romanian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In late 2006, he proposed changes in Romanian legislation regarding access to classified information
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, arguing in favor of unrestricted parliamentary access to the latter (amended by the National Liberal
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A seri ...
senator Norica Nicolai
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, the project was eventually passed).["Parlamentarii vor avea acces la informaţii clasificate" ("MPs Will Have Access to Classified Information")]
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Costică Canacheu supports the view that the 26,500 Aromanians in Romania (of whom approx. 1,300 speak Aromanian as their mother tongue) should be recognized as a separate ethnicity, and has proposed changes in the Law on Minorities.
to initiate special broadcasts in Aromanian at a national level.
In autumn 2006, several of the issues he raised were brought to the attention of the
, and a review of his proposals was due by September 2006 (in December of the same year, Canacheu announced that no resolution had been passed).