Constantin Simirad (13 May 1941 – 28 March 2021) was a

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n politician and academic.

Biography

Simirad was born on 13 May 1941 in Coțușca,

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. He graduated from Iași National College and the

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. He first began teaching secondary school in

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from 1965 to 1968. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of mathematics at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași and was subsequently taught at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Oran. He earned his doctorate in mathematics in 1979. Simirad entered politics in 1991 with the (PAC). The following year, he was elected Mayor of

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, running as a member of the

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. He was re-elected in 1996 with 71% of the vote. He left PAC in 1998 and founded the Partidului Moldovenilor, which he led until 2002. That year, the party merged with the

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(PSD), of which he became vice-president. On 28 November 2003, he left Iași and was appointed Ambassador of Romania to Cuba by

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. Upon his return to Romania in 2006, he retired. On 28 March 2008, the PSD nominated him to run as President of the

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Council. He was elected on 1 June 2008 with 36.5% of the vote. However, he was expelled from PSD in September 2009 after voicing his support for President

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. He then joined

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(UNPR). In 2012, he was defeated in his re-election bid for President of the County Council alongside his party's mayoral candidate Tudor Ciuhodaru. Constantin Simirad died of

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in Iași on 28 March 2021, at the age of 79. He is buried at Eternitatea Cemetery.

Publications

*''Audiențe în aer liber'' (2000) *''Bordura de ipsos'' (2001) *''În umbra zeilor'' (2001) *''Simfonia vieții'' (2003) *''Arca lui Noe'' (2003) *''Izgoniții din rai'' (2005)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simirad, Constantin 1941 births 2021 deaths People from Botoșani County 20th-century Romanian politicians 21st-century Romanian politicians Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni Academic staff of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași Mayors of Iași Councillors in Romania Social Democratic Party (Romania) politicians Ambassadors of Romania to Cuba Romanian schoolteachers Romanian mathematicians Burials at Eternitatea cemetery