Gheorghe Ciuhandu | |
Office: | Mayor of Timișoara |
Term Start: | 3 June 1996 |
Term End: | 9 June 2012 |
Predecessor: | Viorel Oancea |
Successor: | Nicolae Robu |
Birth Date: | 15 June 1947 |
Nationality: | Romanian |
Party: | Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD) |
Gheorghe Coriolan Ciuhandu (in Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan pronounced as /ˈɡe̯orɡe kori.oˈlan tʃjuˈhandu/; born 15 June 1947) is a Romanian politician.
A building engineer by profession, he graduated from the Traian Vuia Polytechnic Institute in 1970, earning a doctorate in 1986 and joining the faculty in 1993.[1] He was the mayor of Timișoara from 1996 to 2012 and was one of the losing candidates for president in the 2004 presidential elections, in which he represented the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD). He replaced Victor Ciorbea as president of the PNȚCD in 2004, and, in 2007 he was replaced by Marian Petre Miluț as president of PNȚCD.