Remus Opriș

In July 2006, Opriş was presented by the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives with the file kept on him by the Securitate, attesting that Communist Romanian authorities had him under constant surveillance between 1976 and 1978, and again in 1981. At the time, he specified, 16 Securitate officers had overseen his case, and he had been reported on by 22 informants.

No longer elected to office in the elections of 2000 (when the PNŢ-CD as a whole failed to pass the election threshold in either chamber of Parliament), Remus Opriş resumed his activity as Vice President of the PNŢ-CD (briefly renamed Christian-Democratic People's Party, PPCD). In March 2006, he rejected the offer of fusion proposed by the PD, aimed at creating a "center-right pole" in Romanian politics, and indicated that the National Peasants' Party would carry on as an independent force.

Upon the CDR's creation, before the elections of 1996, he became the new body's campaign organizer. In December 1996, after the election victory, Opriş was appointed to ministerial office, as Minister-Delegate for Coordinating the General Secretariat of the Government and of the Department for Local Public Administration. He proposed several new laws, including those on ministerial responsibility, the status of civil servants, on property rights, and on local budgets, as well as issuing a 1997 ordinance to amend the Law on Public Administration.

Joining the PNȚ-CD after the 1989 Revolution, Opriş became leader of its youth organization on 1991 (serving until 1993), a junior member of its Leadership Bureau (1991–1995, during the time when the party was headed by Corneliu Coposu) and its Vice President in 1996. As a member of the Chamber, he sat on its Committee for Health and Family throughout his mandates, and advanced legislation on medical practice, the creation of a College of Romanian Doctors, health insurance, and forensic science.

Opriş was born in Ploiești, graduating from the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in 1977, and from the Bucharest Carol Davila General Medicine and Pharmacy Faculty in 1983. He was a general practitioner until 1990, when he began his specialization in Psychiatry (completed in 1992). In 1999, he completed a post-graduate course at the National College of Defense.

Remus Opriș (November 20, 1958, Ploiești – May 20, 2019, Bucharest) was a Romanian politician and psychiatrist, a prominent member of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD) and former Minister-Delegate for Local Administration in the 1996–1998 Victor Ciorbea cabinet (formed around the Romanian Democratic Convention, CDR). He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies elected for Prahova County for three consecutive terms, between 1992 and 2000.