Sergiu Andon (born 12 September 1939,

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) is a Romanian politician and a member of the

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Career

In 1961, he graduated from the Faculty of Justice from

. Between 1961 and 1968 he worked as a prosecutor in

Fetești Fetești () is a city in Ialomița County, Muntenia, Romania. It is located in the Bărăgan plain, on the Borcea branch of the Danube. Fetești has the second largest population in Ialomița, after Slobozia. In 1895, the King Carol I rai ...

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, and

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. Between 1968 and 1972, he was the main redactor of the Flacăra (Flame) magazine and between 1972 and 1989 he was working as a publicist commentator for the magazine. 1989 to 1994 he was the redactor-chief deputy of the Adevărul (Truth) magazine. He wrote some of the most notables articles about King Mihai ("Damn it, Majesty!"). In 1995, he became a politician and worked as a general secretary until 1996. His attitude towards the monarchy changed, ending up congratulating Mihai's speech in Parliament on 2011. 1994 and 1996 he was director of the Romedia agency. From 1996 on he worked as a lawyer in Bucharest. Between 1997 and 2000, he worked as vice president of

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, and in 2000 he became the leader of the legislative department PC. In May 2012, ANI realized that Sergiu Andon's was incompatible with his function as a deputy in the Parliament and requested his revoke from the function, according to the civil sentence No. 2930/13.04.2011. The

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confirmed his claims and gave a definite verdict of incompatibility. The first time ever the Parliament ignored the decision of the ICCJ (HCoJ) and refused to put it for Andon's revocation. He was revoked from function on 11 September 2012. Andon is a member of

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and of the Union of the Democratic Jurists in Romania.

References

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