Ciopraga will chair the board until Transelectrica’s General Assembly of Shareholders appoints new board members, the company said in a statement Tuesday.
Gheorghe was appointed member of Transelectrica’s managing board on June 1. He is also general manager of state-owned hydropower producer Hidroelectrica, which entered insolvency last week.
Transelectrica’s managing board also includes interim members Dumitru Pirvulescu and Remus Vulpescu, head of the Economy Ministry’s privatization office OPSPI, as well as members Gheorghe Seculici, Andrei-Gabriel Benghea-Malaies, Dumitru-Virgil Orlandea and Adrian-Victor Vevera.
The Economy Ministry owns 58.7% in Transelectrica.