1. University of Agronomic Sciences and
Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest
Iuliu Maniu
Romanian politician
Lungu Sorin
Zeles Dragos
Coordinating teacher From the 8311 class
S. L. Frumuselu Mihai Daniel
2. Iuliu Maniu born on January
8,1873was a Romanian politician. A
leader of the Nationa
Party of Transylvania and Banat bef
ore and after World War I, he
served as Prime Minister of
Romania for three terms during
1928–1933, and, with Ion
Mihalache, co-founded
the National Peasants' Party.
3. • Together with such figures as Vasile Goldiș, Gheorghe Pop de Băsești,
the Romanian Orthodox cleric Miron Cristea, and Alexandru Vaida-Voevod,
he engaged in an intensive unionist campaign, leading to the Alba Iulia
gathering on December 1, 1918 (during which Romanians demanded
separation from Austria-Hungary). On December 2, Maniu became head of
Transylvania's Directory Council - a position equivalent to
interim governorship. After the creation of Greater Romania, the PNR
formed the government in Bucharest—a cabinet led by Al. Vaida-Voevod
and allied with Ion Mihalache's Peasants' Party. It entered in competition
with one of the traditional parties of the Romanian Kingdom, the National
Liberal Party, and with its leader Ion I. C. Brătianu, when the Peasants'
Party deadlocked the Parliament of Romania with calls for a
widespread land reform.
4. • After King Ferdinand I dissolved the
Parliament, Iuliu Maniu found
himself at odds with the national
leadership, especially after the
new Prime Minister Alexandru
Averescu (with support from the
National Liberals) dissolved the
Transylvanian Council in April 1920.
Consequently, Maniu refused to
attend King Ferdinand's Crowning
ceremony as King of Greater
Romania (held in Alba Iulia, in
1922), seeing it as an attempt to tie
multi-religious Transylvania to
Orthodoxy.
5. • Despite its success in elections, the PNȚ was blocked out of government by
the Royal Prerogative of King Ferdinand (who had preferred to nominate
Brătianu, Averescu, and Prince Barbu Știrbey). Maniu publicly protested,
and attempted to organize a peasants' march on Bucharest as a public
show of support modeled on the Alba Iulia assembly. He also showed
himself open to deals proposed by Viscount Rothermere regarding a review
of the Treaty of Trianon] and, as King Ferdinand's death approached,
started negotiations with the disinherited Prince Carol (King Ferdinand's
son), proposing that the latter bypass the Constitution and crown himself
in Alba Iulia (as a new foundation for the Romanian Kingdom). Talks with
Carol were ended abruptly after the Romanian authorities called on
the United Kingdom to expel the Prince from its territory
6. • Iuliu Maniu died in 1953 in Sighet prison, and his body was thrown
into the common grave in the courtyard
