The leader of the National Salvation Front, Ion Iliescu, went on to be elected president.
Might Romania, if Ion Iliescu, an old communist, becomes president again, as he might, slip further south-east?
The government insists that most of its problems were inherited from Mr Iliescu's six-year spell in office.
The dreaded secret police (the Securitate) were transferred to the Ministry of Defense in late December 1989 by interim President Iliescu.
Pollsters give it just 17% support, against 43% for Mr Iliescu's lot.
The ageing Mr Iliescu hardly looks like a leader for the 2000s.
The big winner, if only by default, looks like being Mr Iliescu.
According to published returns, the Front candidate, Ion Iliescu, won the presidential election and his forces gained large majorities in both houses of parliament.
It is noteworthy, however, that Iliescu studied agricultural techniques in the Soviet Union and is reportedly a former classmate and personal friend of Gorbachev.
The Iliescu government should not enjoy the same privileges and public standing as its East European neighbors which have held genuinely free and fair elections.
Social Democrat Ion Iliescu, a former Romanian president, said the country should have an independent government for the next six months until parliamentary elections are held.
In 1989, Romania's National Salvation Front named a new government headed by President Ion Iliescu, a day after announcing the execution of deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
And now, while people like Messrs Tudor and Cozma make the running, the ex-communist opposition, led by a former president, Ion Iliescu, is rubbing its hands.
This recommendation was rejected by Iliescu, by then the president-elect.
This practice -- epitomized by Ceausescu's practice of proclaiming foreign policy stances at variance with those of the USSR while actively collaborating with Moscow on a variety of fronts (notably technology theft and espionage) -- appears to be operative under the successor, National Salvation Front regime of Ion Iliescu.
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