Gheorghe Ciuhandu

Gheorghe Ciuhandu
November 2006
Mayor of Timișoara
In office 3 June 1996 – 9 June 2012
Preceded by	Viorel Oancea
Succeeded by	Nicolae Robu
Personal details
Born	(1947-06-15) 15 June 1947 (age 77)
Nationality	Romanian
Political party	Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD)

Gheorghe Coriolan Ciuhandu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe kori.oˈlan tʃjuˈhandu]; born 15 June 1947) is a Romanian politician.

A building engineer by profession, he graduated from the Traian Vuia Polytechnic Institute in 1970, earning a doctorate in 1986 and joining the faculty in 1993.^[1] He was the mayor of Timișoara from 1996 to 2012 and was one of the losing candidates for president in the 2004 presidential elections, in which he represented the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD). He replaced Victor Ciorbea as president of the PNȚCD in 2004, and, in 2007 he was replaced by Marian Petre Miluț as president of PNȚCD.