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==Background==
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[[Ion Iliescu]] and the [[National Salvation Front (Romania)|National Salvation Front]] (FSN) seized power during the 1989 revolution. The FSN organization was meant to act as a temporary government until free elections were to be held. However, on 23 January 1990, despite its earlier claims, it decided to become a party and to run in the elections it would organize. Some of the dissenters and anti-communists who joined the FSN during the revolution (including [[Doina Cornea]]) left following this decision.

Many of the FSN personalities, including its president, Iliescu, were ex-communists and as such the revolution was seen as being hijacked by the FSN.<ref>''[[România Liberă]]''. "Iluziile au durat numai o lună. Au murit în zadar atâţia români?", 25 January 1990.</ref> The FSN, which was widely known from the revolution and associated with it, won 66.3% of the votes, while the next party &ndash; the [[Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania]] &ndash; obtained only 7.2% of the votes, followed by the [[National Liberal Party (Romania)|National Liberal Party]] at 6.4%, with the [[Ecological Movement of Romania]] (MER) and the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚ-CD) trailing at around 2.6% (see ''[[1990 Romanian general election]]'').