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===1996–2000: Government===

{| class=wikitable style="float:right; margin-left: 10px;"
|+ Seat allocation following the [[1996 Romanian general election|1996 election]]
|-
! rowspan="2" colspan=2|Party
! colspan="2"|Parliament Seats
|-
! [[Chamber of Deputies (Romania)|Chamber]] 
! [[Senate of Romania|Senate]]
|-
| {{party color cell|Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party}}
| style="text-align: left;"|PNȚCD
| 81
| 25
|-
| {{party color cell|National Liberal Party (Romania)}}
| style="text-align: left;"|PNL
| 28
| 22
|-
| {{party color cell|National Liberal Party (Romania)}}
| style="text-align: left;"|PNL-CD
| 4
| 1
|-
| {{party color cell|National Liberal Party (Romania)}}
| style="text-align: left;"|PAR
| 3
| 3
|-
| {{party color cell|Ecologist Party of Romania}}
| style="text-align: left;"|PER
| 5
| 1
|-
| {{party color cell|Ecologist Party of Romania}}
| style="text-align: left;"|FER
| 1
| 1
|-
! colspan=2 | Total
| {{Composition bar|122|343|hex={{Party color|Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party}}}}
| {{Composition bar|53|143|hex={{Party color|Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party}}}}
|-
|}

In 1993, the PNL led by [[Mircea Ionescu-Quintus]] returned within the CDR. Subsequently, the CDR managed to win the [[1996 Romanian general election|1996 Romanian elections]], and the alliance's presidential candidate, once again [[Emil Constantinescu]], became president with 54.41% (or 7,057,906 votes). The [[1996 Romanian general election]] represented the first peaceful transition of power in the democratic history of Romania after the fall of Communism.

For the period 1996–2000, the CDR formed a grand coalition with the Social Democratic Union (an alliance between the [[Democratic Party (Romania)|Democratic Party]] and PSDR) and the [[Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania|UDMR/RMDSZ]] (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania). At governing level, this grand coalition resulted in the [[Ciorbea Cabinet]] (1996–1998), [[Vasile Cabinet]] (1998–1999), and [[Isărescu Cabinet]] (1999–2000).