Iliescu

[ il-ee-es-koo ]

noun

1. Ion, [yawn], born 1930, Romanian political leader: president 1990–96, 2000–04.

Example Sentences

Mircea Iliescu, a Romanian doctor in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, says that even if that is the case, Romania still “has a lot of people susceptible to hospitalization.”

From Seattle Times

Another presidential Rombac 1-11, used by Ion Iliescu, who assumed power after communism fell in 1989, will go up for auction on the same day with the same starting price.

From Seattle Times

Prosecutors hold Ion Iliescu, now 89 and in poor health, and two of his former peers, responsible for "contributing to the institution of a generalised psychosis" during the 1989 revolution, and for the deaths of 862 people.

From BBC

Turbulent years followed the revolution with a government led by Mr Iliescu.

From BBC

It was the first hearing in a long-awaited trial that accuses ex-President Ion Iliescu, who assumed power in the aftermath of Ceausescu, of crimes against humanity.

From BBC