A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Counsel for President Ion Iliescu, Mironov was Minister for Youth and Sport in 1993-1996.
•
He also worked as a Counsel for Romanian President Ion Iliescu, and claims to have played a part in ensuring his election victory during the 1992 suffrage.
In 2002 he was awarded Romania's Mare Cruce Medal (Order For Merit) by the President of Romania,Ion Iliescu and the only American to have been so honored.
In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României (rank of ceremonial knighthood) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.
The third act, set largely in a hospital where one of the characters from Act I is recovering from injuries sustained during the fighting engage matters such as Romanian perceptions of the Hungarian minority and many conflicting views as the extent to which the events December 1989 and the rise of Ion Iliescu constituted a coup d'état versus a revolution.
Rime de bine, 1998 ("Good Rhymes") - ironic reference to how Ion Iliescu and his National Salvation Front called their supporters (oameni de bine, "good people") in contrast to their political opponents (golani, "hooligans" - see also the Golaniad)
Ion Television | Ion Iliescu | Ion | Ion Creangă | Ion Birch | Lithium-ion battery | Ion Voicu | Ion Nunweiller | Ion (mythology) | Ion Antonescu | ION Television | Ion Panţuru | Ion Mihalache | Ion Idriess | Ion exchange | Ion Baciu | Voltage-gated ion channel | Saturn Ion | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider | lithium-ion battery | Ion Vincze | Ion Tower | Ion Storm | Ion Sancho (politician) | Ion Sancho | Ion (play) | Ion Perdicaris | Ion Păscăluţă | Ion N. Petrovici | Ion Nistor |
Along with the founder of the law Marius Marinescu, signed as co-founders, senators Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, Nicolae Văcăroiu, former prime-minister of Romania and at the time president of the Senate.
Tudor's second place position ensured he would compete in the second round run-off against former president and Romanian Social Democratic Party (PDSR) candidate Ion Iliescu, who won by a large margin.
In 1996, Emil Constantinescu, the then rector of the University of Bucharest, was elected President of Romania, after defeating Ion Iliescu in national presidential elections.