Mircea Ionescu-Quintus | |
Office: | President of the Senate of Romania |
Term Start: | 4 February 2000 |
Term End: | 30 November 2000 |
Predecessor: | Petre Roman |
Successor: | Nicolae Văcăroiu |
Office1: | Minister of Justice |
Term Start1: | 16 October 1991 |
Term End1: | 18 November 1992 |
Primeminister1: | Theodor Stolojan |
Predecessor1: | Victor Babiuc |
Successor1: | Petre Ninosu |
Office2: | Member of the Senate of Romania |
Term Start2: | 22 November 1996 |
Term End2: | 12 December 2004 |
Office3: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start3: | 9 June 1990 |
Term End3: | 15 October 1992 |
Office4: | Leader of the National Liberal Party |
Term Start4: | 28 February 1993 |
Term End4: | 18 February 2001 |
Predecessor4: | Radu Câmpeanu |
Successor4: | Valeriu Stoica |
Birth Date: | 18 March 1917 |
Birth Place: | Kherson, Russian Republic |
Death Place: | Ploiești, Romania |
Nationality: | Romanian |
Party: | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
Spouse: | Viorica Ionescu-Quintus |
Children: | 1 |
Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (in Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan pronounced as /ˈmirtʃe̯a joˈnesku ˈkvintus/; 18 March 1917 – 15 September 2017) was a Romanian politician who served as a senator and Minister of Justice in the Stolojan Cabinet (1991–1992). He was also the second post-1989 president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 1993 to 2001. He also briefly served as Senate President in 2000, during the late part of the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) governance. Ionescu-Quintus turned 100 in March 2017,[1] and died six months later.[2] [3]
Currently, he is the longest serving post-1989 president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), having led the party for 7 years and 11 months between 1993 and 2001.