Gheorghe Ciuhandu

{{short description|Romanian politician}}

{{for|his grandfather|Gheorghe Ciuhandu (priest)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Gheorghe Ciuhandu

|image = File:Gheorghe Ciuhandu (cropped).jpg

|caption = November 2006

|office = Mayor of Timișoara

|term_start = 3 June 1996

|term_end = 9 June 2012

|predecessor = Viorel Oancea

|successor = Nicolae Robu

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|6|15|df=y}}

|death_date =

|death_place =

|nationality = Romanian

|party = Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD)

}}

Gheorghe Coriolan Ciuhandu ({{IPA|ro|ˈɡe̯orɡe kori.oˈlan tʃjuˈhandu}}; born 15 June 1947) is a Romanian politician.

A building engineer by profession, he graduated from the Traian Vuia Polytechnic Institute in 1970, earning a doctorate in 1986 and joining the faculty in 1993.{{in lang|ro}} [http://www.alegeri-2012.ro/candidati/pntcd/ciuhandu-gheorghe-344.html Dl. Ciuhandu Gheorghe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407060527/http://www.alegeri-2012.ro/candidati/pntcd/ciuhandu-gheorghe-344.html |date=2014-04-07 }}, alegeri-2012.ro He was the mayor of Timișoara from 1996 to 2012 and was one of the losing candidates for president in the 2004 presidential elections, in which he represented the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD). He replaced Victor Ciorbea as president of the PNȚCD in 2004, and, in 2007 he was replaced by Marian Petre Miluț as president of PNȚCD.