National Salvation Front (Romania)

National Salvation Front Council
Consiliul Frontul Salvării Naționale

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Abbreviation	CFSN
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
Location	Romania
Official language	Romanian
President	Ion Iliescu
Prime Minister	Petre Roman

National Salvation Front Frontul Salvării Naționale
Abbreviation	FSN
Co-leaders	Ion Iliescu, Petre Roman, Dumitru Mazilu
Founded	22 December 1989 (1989-12-22) (as governing body) 6 February 1990 (1990-02-06) (as political party)
Dissolved	28 May 1993 (1993-05-28)
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] Democratic socialism[4] Left-wing populism[5] Economic nationalism[6]
Political position	Centre-left to left-wing
Colours	Blue, yellow, red (Romanian Tricolour)
Party flag
The flag of the Revolution (1989), without the coat of arms.
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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).