Alex Mihai Stoenescu
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Alex Mihai Stoenescu (born October 2, 1953) is a Romanian writer, journalist and politician.
According to his own admission, Stoenescu collaborated in 1984 with the Romanian Communist secret police, the Securitate, while he worked as an engineer at a factory in Băneasa. However, he claims it was out of patriotism, and he only gave technical details about some equipment bought by the company he worked for.[1]
After the Romanian Revolution, he worked as a journalist and then as chief of the Press Department of the National Defense Ministry. In 1998, president Emil Constantinescu intended to name him spokesman of the presidency, until Constantinescu learnt about his collaboration with the Securitate.[1]
Stoenescu was a vice president of Uniunea Forţelor de Dreapta, resigning from it in 2000, following the unsatisfactory results in the local elections,[2] joining the National Liberal Party in August 2000.[3] In 2006, Stoenescu joined the New Generation – Christian Democratic Party, being chosen vice president in charge of its doctrine.[4] He was also part of the team of historians whom Gigi Becali commissioned to write the "true history of Romania".[5] Stoenescu was among several important members of this party to resign in 2007.[6]
