DEPUTAȚI BUCOVINENI ÎN PARLAMENTUL ROMÂNIEI ÎNTREGITE. DORIMEDONT POPOVICI (LEGISLATURA 1920–1922)
Bukovinian Deputies in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Romania. Dorimedont Popovici (Parliamentary Term 1920–1922)

Summary/Abstract: Dorimedont Popovici (1874–1950) was a Bukovinian politician who became involved in cultural-national activities, campaigning for the rights of Romanians in Bukovina. He attended primary school in Suceava, secondary school and university courses (Law School) in Chernivtsi, later obtaining a PhD in Law. From the autumn of 1918, he became involved in the national liberation movement of the Romanians in Bukovina. He was one of the organizers of the National Assembly on October 27, 1918, Vice-President of the Romanian National Council; was part of the Bukovina government; participated in the General Congress of Bukovina (November 28, 1918) and voted for the unconditional union of Bukovina with the Kingdom of Romania. After 1918, Dori Popovici continued his political activity, contributing to the integration of Bukovina into the structures of the Romanian state. He held various public functions and dignities. He was a member of the Democratic Union Party (1919), the People’s Party (1920) and the National Peasant Party (1927). He was an MP from the People’s Party in the legislative period between 1920 and 1922, Minister Secretary of State in the Averescu governments (1920–1921, 1926–1927). His parliamentary interventions focus on issues related to the unification and administration of the province. In 1944, before the occupation of the northern part of Bukovina, Dori Popovici fled to Romania. Arrested on the night between the 5th and the 6th of May 1950, then imprisoned at Sighet without trial, he died in extermination on June 12, 1950. In the Annex we present an interpellation about the problems of Bukovina integration (administrative and legislative unification), important for understanding how Dorimedont Popovici saw the organization of the province within the Kingdom of Romania.

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