Steluţa Lucia Rodica Coposu died. It was the last sister in life of peasant leader Corneliu Coposu and the one leading the Foundation

Steluţa Lucia Rodica Coposu, the sister of the former peasant leader and the president of the “Corneliu Coposu” Foundation, ceased life at the age of 92, the Foundation announced in a message published on Facebook.

“With the soul crushed by pain, I announce that this morning, the president of the Corneliu Coposu Foundation, the youngest sister of the senior and the last on the direct line of the hard family Coposu, Steluţa Lucia Rodica Coposu, went to heaven to meet all his loved ones,”

Together with her sister, Flavia Bălescu-Coposu, decided in July 1996 to establish the Corneliu Coposu Foundation, in memory of their brother who died a year before.

In 2009, together with his sister Flavia, he was decorated by his Majesty, King Mihai I of Romania, with the cross of the Royal House of Romania.

“For the family, she became the pillar of safety. She dedicated her entire material and spiritual capacity for the use of the family and all those who asked for her support. The generosity inherited it from the mother, the tolerance and the love of people from Cornel, the spirit of justice from the father and the doina, and it could not be done from us, His sister, Flavia Bălescu Coposu

Corneliu Coposu, the leader of the post -communist opposition

Corneliu Coposu was born on May 20, 1914, in Bobota, Sălaj and died on November 11, 1995, being buried in the Bellu Catholic Cemetery in Bucharest. He was the leader of the post -communist Romanian opposition.

Graduate of law and journalist, a trusted man of the national-country leader Iuliu Maniu, Coposu was a member of the Peasant National Party until his prohibition in 1947, and later he was politically detained in very harsh conditions, in the Stalinist phase of the communist regime in Romania.

After the 1989 Revolution, he officially re-established the PNŢ under the name of the National Democratic Peasant Party and was president of the PNŢCD between 1990 and 1995. In this capacity, he founded the Romanian Democratic Convention, whose first president was. Corneliu Coposu was elected senator in the Romanian Parliament in 1992.