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Relevant Election Results
(% of votes, major parties only)
Party / Coalition
1990 1992 1996 2000 2005
National Salvation Front
FSN 66.3
Democratic National Salvation
Front
FDSN
27.2
Romanian Party of Social De-
mocracy
PDSR
21.5 36.6
Social Democratic Party
PSD
36.8
Democratic Party
PD
10.2 12.9 7.0
Alliance for Romania
ApR
4.1
Truth and Justice Alliance
DA
31.5
National Liberal Party
PNL
6.4 2.6
6.9
National Peasant Party
PNTCD
5.0
Democratic Convention of Rom. CDR
20.0 30.2
Party of Rom. National Unity PUNR 2.1 7.7 4.4 1.4
Greater Romania Party
PRM
3.9 4.5 19.5 13
Democratic Alliance of Hungar-
ians in Romania
UDMR 7.2 7.5 6.6 6.8 6.2
Notes:
• The umbrella group FSN disintegrated into FSDN (Iliescu) and rump FSN in 1992,
which later converted into the PD.
• PDSR was formed after the 1993 merger of FDSN and another smaller social demo-
cratic party.
• PSD was formed after the 2001 merger of PDSR with some other smaller leftist parties.
• DA was created by the union of PD and PNL in 2004.
• ApR defected from PDSR in 1997 and later joined PNL.
• In 1992, CDR was a coalition with PNTCD as its major component; in 1996 it included
PNTCD, PNL and two small environmentalist parties.
Presidents:
Ion Iliescu
(December 1989 – June 1990)
Ion Iliescu
(June 1990 – October 1996)
Emil Constantinescu
(October 1996 – November 2000)
Ion Iliescu
(November 2000 – November 2004)
Traian Băsescu
(December 2004 – today)
Governments:
1.
Petre Roman I
(December 1989 – June 1990)
2.
Petre Roman II
(June 1990 – September 1991)
3.
Theodor Stolojan
(October 1991 – September 1992)
