Emil Constantinescu

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Emil Constantinescu

Office: President of Romania
Term of Office: 29 November 1996-20 December 2000
Predecessor: Ion Iliescu
Successor: Ion Iliescu
Date of Birth: Sunday, 19 November 1939
Place of Birth: Tighina, Romania, now in the Republic of Moldova
Profession: Professor of Geology
Political Party:

Romanian Democratic Convention
before being elected
Currently Acţiunea Populară

Emil Constantinescu (born November 19, 1939 in Tighina, currently in the Republic of Moldova) was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000.

He graduated from the law school of Bucharest University and subsequently started a career as a geologist.

After the Romanian revolution in 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the Civic Alliance, the most comprehensive organization of Romanian civic society. He was the acting chairman of the Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Forum, the first associative structure of the democratic opposition in Romania, which was transformed into a political and electoral alliance - the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR).

In 1992 he was elected rector of Bucharest University and became CDR's candidate for president. He lost the election to the incumbent, Ion Iliescu, after a second round. In 1996, however, the CDR won the general elections for the two chambers of the Parliament and Emil Constantinescu was elected president of Romania, defeating Iliescu.

Given the catastrophic results of the CDR government, Constantinescu lost popular support and did not run for a second term as President, temporarily withdrawing from political life at the end of his term in November 2000. However, he returned to the political scene in 2002 as head of the Acţiunea populară (People's Action) party.

On the international level, he is committed to the integration of Romania into the European Union and NATO structures; to the strengthening of bilateral links with other countries as well as to the implementation of trilateral political and economic agreements among states.

Emil Constantinescu and Bill Clinton in Bucharest
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Emil Constantinescu and Bill Clinton in Bucharest


edit Presidents of Romania Coat of Arms of Romania
People's Republic of Romania (1947 - 1965) Constantin Parhon | Petru Groza | Ion Gheorghe Maurer | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Socialist Republic of Romania (1965 - 1989) Nicolae Ceauşescu
Romania (since 1989) Ion Iliescu | Emil Constantinescu | Ion Iliescu | Traian Băsescu


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