DEPUTAȚI BUCOVINENI ÎN PARLAMENTUL ROMÂNIEI ÎNTREGITE. IACOB PISTINER (LEGISLATURA 1920–1922)
Bukovinian Deputies in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Romania. Iacob Pistiner (Parliamentary Term 1920–1922)

Summary/Abstract: Iacob Pistiner (1882–1930) was since 1911 a member of the Social Democratic Party of Bukovina. Subsequently, he was part of the leadership of this party and was an editor at “Vremea Nouăˮ, a newspaper which appeared in Chernivtsi in January 1919. He was involved in organizing the social-democratic movement in Bukovina, which entered a new stage of development after 1918, and was part of the governing structures of the Social Democratic Party of Romania. As a social-democratic politician, he was openly against Bolshevism and was a member of the Labour and Socialist International Committee. He was elected deputy, after Bukovina’s union with the Kingdom of Romania, during three parliamentary terms (1920–1922, 1922–1926, 1928–1931). Between 1920 and 1922, Iacob Pistiner debated issues related to: the unification and administration of the territories brought together with the Kingdom of Romania, the financial reform, the bill on luxury tax and turnover, the bill on the distribution of school textbooks, the law on the status of public servants, the draft budget, etc. Attracted by the values of democracy promoted by European socialism, Iacob Pistiner militated for Bukovina’s autonomy, defence of minority rights and tax system reform. In the following article, we present three interpellations made by Iacob Pistiner in the Assembly of Deputies on July 23, 1920, May 21, 1921, and July 18, 1921, on topics related to the administration of the reunited territories and to the financial reform.

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