Iliescu

In 2004, after a dispute with Israel over comments about the Holocaust, then-President Ion Iliescu assembled an international panel led by Nobel-prize winner Elie Wiesel to investigate the Holocaust in Romania.

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Take, for example, ex-President Ion Iliescu, the architect of the current political system.

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Iliescu duly won almost 90 percent in the first post-communist election in May 1990.

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He added that Social Democratic member (PSD) Iliescu negotiated with Liberal PM Tariceanu his temporary suspension pending a much hyped referendum to impeach the head of state a year ago.

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Last month Iliescu and leaders of his ruling National Salvation Front won more than 80 percent of the vote, riding a tide of support to become among the few ex-communists to win elections in Eastern Europe.

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Friday Iliescu sent the miners home, thanking them "with all my heart" for ending the demonstrations.

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Now Iliescu must find a way either to reassure protesters or -- like his predecessor -- to suppress them by force.

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Iliescu described the fighting as an attempted coup, and he had a point.

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The riots did not immediately threaten Iliescu; last week's protests were led by politically marginal student radicals.

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After much public outcry over his pardoning of Miron Cozma, Iliescu today revoked his decision.

Claudia Muir | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion 2005