In November, Romania changed its government through democratic elections for the first time in more than 50 years. The opposition Democratic Convention of Romania swept the Party of Social Democracy in Romania out of power, and Emil Constantinescu ended Ion lliescu’s seven-year rule as Romania’s first post-communist president.

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