Manea Mănescu was a former Romania

Romania

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n communist

Communism

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 politician who served as Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Romania

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 for five years (March 29, 1974 - March 29, 1979) during Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

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's Communist regime

Communist Romania

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Mănescu's father was a Communist Party veteran from Ploieşti

Ploiesti

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, who in the early 1920s supported the transformation of the Socialist Party into the Communist Party. In 1944, after the coup d'état, he worked together with Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

, his future brother-in-law, in the Communist Youth Union. In 1951, Mănescu
was appointed as head of the Department of Economics at Bucharest University and Director General of the Central Directorate of Statistics.

In December 1967, he was appointed Chairman of the Economic Council. He was promoted to full membership of the Executive Committee in December 1968 and, after holding various positions in the party and government, and in March 1973 he became Prime Minister, a position he held until 1979, when he retired, reportedly due to ill health. He died in 2009, aged 92.

Family

Mănescu's wife, Maria, was the sister of Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

. In December 1973, she was named Vice Chairman of the Romanian Red Cross Society. She was also named a member of the (Romanian) National Council of Women in April 1978. It is not clear if the Mănescus had any children.

External links

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