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Romania Tenth Party Congress
The Tenth Party Congress of August 1969 reelected
Ceausescu
PCR general secretary, enlarged the Central Committee from
121 to
165 members, purged some of Ceausescu's potential
opponents, and
further revised the party statutes. The statute revisions
provided
for electing the Central Committee by secret ballot and
transferred
responsibility for electing the general secretary from the
Central
Committee to the party congress. It was also decided that
the party
congress would be convened every five--rather than
four--years so
that it could discuss and adopt a five-year economic plan
for the
country.
Nearly half of the older members of the Central
Committee were
replaced by younger men who supported Ceausescu. Two
members of
the old guard, Apostol and Stoica, were conspicuously not
reelected, and immediately after the congress, Apostol
lost his
position as UGSR chairman after being charged with
"serious
breaches of Communist morality."
Data as of July 1989
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