Raul-Victor Surdu-Soreanu (11 July 1947 – 7 April 2011) was a Romanian politician who served as the country's first post-Communist Minister of Agriculture following the 1989 Revolution.
[2] He worked as a manager for Romania's collective farm system during the Communist era,[1] and then joined the National Salvation Front (FSN), which took power after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
[1] He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania (PDAR) from 1990 to 1992, and for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 2008 until his death.
[1] Surdu died from pancreatic cancer in Bucharest in 2011, at the age of 63.
[1] He was married to singer Angela Similea, and had three children.