Octav Cozmâncă (; born 22 September 1947) is a
Romania
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n politician. A former member of the
Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a member of the
Romanian Senate for
Botoșani County
Botoșani County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia (encompassing a few villages in neighbouring Suceava County from Bukovina to the west as well), with the county seat at Botoșani.
Demographics
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from 1996 to 2008. In the
Adrian Năstase cabinet, he was Minister of Public Administration from 2000 to 2003.
Biography
Born in Talpa village, now in
Cândești Commune,
Botoșani County
Botoșani County () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Western Moldavia (encompassing a few villages in neighbouring Suceava County from Bukovina to the west as well), with the county seat at Botoșani.
Demographics
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, Cozmâncă graduated from the Law Faculty of the
University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...
in 1971.
In 1960, he joined the ranks of the
Union of Communist Youth (UTC) and in 1969 he became a member of the
Romanian Communist Party
The Romanian Communist Party ( ; PCR) was a communist party in Romania. The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave an ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that would replace the social system ...
(PCR). In 1980, he joined the central committee of the UTC.
From 1983 to 1989, he was head coordinator at the general secretariat of the Romanian government. From 1989 to 1990, a period that spanned the
fall of the
Communist regime, he was an inspector for the government. From 1990 to 1992, working at the
Culture Ministry, he directed the management of the trust for administering the national cultural patrimony. From 1992 to 1996, he was a secretary of state, heading the Department of Local Public Administration.
[Profile]
at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed August 23, 2010
Elected to the
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
in
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, he sat on various committees there: budget, finance, banking and capital markets (1996–2000); public administration, territorial organisation and environmental protection (1996–2000; 2004–2005);
foreign policy (2003–2004); joint committee providing oversight to the activities of the
Romanian Intelligence Service (2004–2008).
[2004–2008 parliamentary profile]
accessed August 23, 2010 He was Public Administration Minister from December 2000 to June 2003. Within his party, which he joined in 1992, he has been secretary of the national council (1993–1997), member of the executive central bureau (1996–2005), executive secretary (1997–2003) and executive president (2003–2005).
[ Stelian Neagoe, ''Oameni politici români'', p.741. Editura Machiavelli, Bucharest, 2007. ] Following criticisms of the party that he issued, the PSD removed him as a member in 2009. In 2011, together with other former members of the Romanian Communist Party, he was among the initiators of a new left-wing formation, the Party of Social Justice.
He and his wife, who died in 2005, had one child.
[ Victor Ciutacu]
"Cozmâncă se intoarce" ("Cozmâncă Returns")
'' Jurnalul Național'', 2 December 2007; accessed August 23, 2010
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Social Democratic Party (Romania) politicians
Members of the Senate of Romania
University of Bucharest alumni
People from Botoșani County
Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church
1947 births
Living people
Romanian Communist Party politicians