Raul-Victor Surdu-Soreanu (11 July 1947 – 7 April 2011) was a Romanian politician who served as the country's first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture following the 1989 Revolution.[1] He was a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD).[1]
Surdu was born in Iaşi.[2] He worked as a manager for Romania's collective farm system during the Communist era,[1] and then joined the National Salvation Front (FSN), which took power after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu.[1]
Surdu served as Minister of Agriculture from 1989 to 1990.[1] He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania (PDAR) from 1990 to 1992, and for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 2008 until his death.[3] [4] For a brief period in the mid-1990s, he was deputy manager of Lukoil of Romania.[1]
Surdu died from pancreatic cancer in Bucharest in 2011, at the age of 63.[1] He was survived by his wife, singer Angela Similea, and three children.[1]