Editing Emil Constantinescu (section)

{{short description|Romanian professor and politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Emil Constantinescu
| image               = Emil Constantinescu.jpg
| caption             = Constantinescu in 1998
| order               = 3rd
| office              = President of Romania
| primeminister       = [[Nicolae Văcăroiu]]<br />{{ubl|class=nowrap|[[Victor Ciorbea]]
| [[Gavril Dejeu]] {{small|(Acting)}}
| [[Radu Vasile]]
| [[Alexandru Athanasiu]] {{small|(Acting)}}
| [[Mugur Isărescu]]
}}
| term_start          = 29 November 1996
| term_end            = 20 December 2000
| predecessor         = [[Ion Iliescu]]
| successor           = Ion Iliescu
| office2             = Leader of the [[Romanian Democratic Convention]]
| term_start2         = November 1992
| term_end2           = 29 November 1996
| predecessor2        = [[Corneliu Coposu]]
| spouse              = [[Nadia Ileana Bogorin|Nadia Ileana Constantinescu]]
| children            = Dragoș <br /> Norina Boru
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1939|11|19|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Bender, Moldova|Tighina]], [[Ținutul Nistru]], [[Kingdom of Romania]] (present day de jure Tighina, [[Moldova|Republic of Moldova]], de facto Bender, [[Transnistria]])
| death_date          = 
| profession          = [[Professor]] of [[Geology]]
| party               = [[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] (2008–present)
| otherparty          = [[Romanian Communist Party]] (1965–1989)<br />[[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (1990–1996)<br />Independent (1996–2000; PNȚ-CD membership suspended while president)<br />[[People's Action (Romania)|People's Action]] (2001–2008)
| blank1              = Religion
| data1               = [[Romanian Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]]
| signature           = Signature Emil Constantinescu.png
}}

'''Emil Constantinescu''' ({{IPA|ro|eˈmil konstantiˈnesku|-|Ro-Emil Constantinescu.ogg}}; born 19 November 1939) is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the [[President of Romania]], from 1996 to 2000.

After the [[Romanian Revolution|Romanian Revolution of 1989]], Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the [[Civic Alliance Foundation|Civic Alliance]] (AC). In addition, he also served as the acting president of the ''Democratic Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Forum'', the first associative structure of the democratic opposition in post-1989 Romania, which was later transformed into a [[centre-right politics|centre-right]] political and electoral alliance known as the [[Romanian Democratic Convention]] (CDR).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rafto.no/the-rafto-prize/doina-cornea|title=Doina Cornea|author=Rafto.no|access-date=11 July 2018|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027072229/https://www.rafto.no/the-rafto-prize/doina-cornea|url-status=dead}}</ref> He had also subsequently presided the [[People's Action (Romania)|People's Action]] (AP) party from the early 2000s until it merged into the [[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] (PNL) in 2008. Nowadays, Constantinescu remains involved in [[Politics of Romania|Romanian politics]] solely to a limited extent.