





Former Senator George Pruteanu dies of heart attack
George Pruteanu was born in Bucharest on December 15, 1947. He says on his website, Pruteanu.ro, that he never served as a member of the Communist Party. He joined the National Peasants Party in 1996 only to leave in in 1998. Two years later he joined the Social Democratic Party, but in 2003 he became a member of the far-right Greater Romania Party.
He worked as a university lecturer as well as a journalist before the 1989 Revolution. Afterwards, he worked as a journalist in central dailies and weeklies before earning fame with his show on the public television.
He served as a senator between 1996 and 2004.