Ionel Mantog Quits Turceni Pwr Plant GM Position

Ionel Mantog, the general manager of Romanian state-run thermal power producer Turceni, resigned Monday from his position, invoking both personal and political reasons.

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The former leader of Gorj branch of the Liberal Democratic Party PDL, part of the ruling coalition, said Monday in a press conference that he talked on the phone with the Economy Minister Adriean Videanu and told him about his decision to resign from Turceni's management.

Mantog said this is not the first time he quits a managing job in order to keep its freedom of action.

Mantog was named the general manager of Turceni plant in January. At that time, he announced his intention to make significant changes in the company’s mining department after taking over the helm.

Between 2005 and 2006, Mantog was the state secretary on mining problems in the former Ministry of Economy and Commerce, position from which he resigned after being involved in an investigation conducted by anticorruption prosecutors.

Mantog was afterwards the economic director of Romania’s state-owned brown coal mining company - Societatea Nationala a Lignitului Oltenia, SNLO.

Turceni plant is the largest thermal power producer in Romania’s southern area of Oltenia. Alongside with the other two thermal power producers in the region, Craiova and Rovinari, respectively, Turceni plant provides around one third of Romania’s annual electricity consumption.

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