Ion Diaconescu after seventeen years in prison as party of an amnesty program for political prisoners. Romanian dictator, President Nicolae Ceaușescu, and the Communist government fell in the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Diaconescu co-founded the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party in 1989 after the revolution. Diaconescu served as the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania, the lower house of the Romanian Parliament, from 1996 to 2000. In 2011, Diaconescu criticized his own Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party, which has been plagued by in-fighting, saying that the party should be relaunched under the leadership of former Prime Minister, Victor Ciorbea. Diaconescu died in
Nicolae Matei as 57.5 ha woodlands. The estate was inherited by his male offspring, Virgiliu, but was expropriated in March 1949 after the rise to power of the communist regime. The Virgiliu's inheriter, Nicolae Matei, born in 1940, has partially recovered the Nicolae Matei's property and lives in Bogdăneşti, in the family's house. Eventually his offspring moved to Cork, Ireland where both his granddaughter Ruxandra Colan Petcu and his great-granddaughter Ioana Petcu-Colan have pursued careers as musicians. Nicolae Matei Nicolae Matei (1863–1933) was a Romanian politician who served as Deputy from 1905 to 1914 and as Senator from 1914 to 1933. He