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Abbreviation | CFSN |
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Predecessor | Great National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania |
Successor | Provisional Council of National Unity |
Founded | 22 December 1989 |
Dissolved | 6 February 1990 |
Type | Provisional Governing Body |
Purpose | deliberative democracy |
Headquarters | Bucharest |
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Official language | Romanian |
President | Ion Iliescu |
Prime Minister | Petre Roman |
National Salvation Front Frontul Salvării Naționale | |
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Abbreviation | FSN |
Co-leaders | Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman, Dumitru Mazilu |
Founded | 22 December 1989 (as governing body) 6 February 1990 (as political party) |
Dissolved | 28 May 1993 |
Split from | Romanian Communist Party |
Succeeded by | Democratic Party (legally) Democratic National Salvation Front (Iliescu faction) |
Headquarters | Bucharest |
Ideology | Eurocommunism (early, briefly)[1][2] Post-communism Anti-communism Social democracy[3][4][5] Democratic socialism[6] Left-wing populism[7] Economic nationalism[8] |
Political position | Centre-left[9] to left-wing |
Colours | Blue, yellow, red (Romanian Tricolour) |
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The National Salvation Front (Romanian: Frontul Salvării Naționale, FSN) was the most important political organization formed during the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, which became the governing body of Romania in the first weeks after the collapse of the communist regime. It subsequently became a political party, the largest post-communist party, and won the 1990 election with 66% of the national vote, under the leadership of then-President Ion Iliescu, who was elected with 85% of the vote.
Iliescu nominated again Petre Roman as the Prime Minister of the first cabinet formed after the first free and fair elections. After the fourth ”mineriadă”, Roman was forced to resign. The controversy between the two national leaders was finalized in 1992, at the national Congress of FSN, when the party split in two: the Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN), under the leadership of President Iliescu; and FSN, under the leadership of Petre Roman (in 1993, it was the renamed as the Democratic Party (PD).
The National Salvation Front (FSN) founded by Iliescu and Roman was the common root of two of the largest active political parties in post-communist Romania: the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democratic Party (PD, later the Democratic Liberal Party, PDL, after the merger with a splinter group from PNL, the Liberal Democratic Party, PLD). In 2014, the second party (the former PD; then PDL) merged into the National Liberal Party (PNL).