Stelian Tănase

Stelian Tănase (born February 17, 1952) is a Romanian writer, journalist, political analyst, and talk show host.

Having briefly engaged in politics during the early 1990s, after the fall of the Communist regime, he has remained a leading figure of the Romanian civil society.

After July 1991, Tănase sided with the group inside the Civic Alliance that called for the organization's transformation into a political party.

The Commission was founded by President Traian Băsescu in order to provide for an official and academic basis for condemning the Romanian communist regime.

This took place on December 18, 2006, when the President presented the Commission's 660 pages report to Parliament, making Romania the first Eastern Bloc country to officially condemn its communist regime.