Certainly, the miners had the enthusiastic support of the nationalist Greater Romania Party, led by Vadim Tudor, a populist who once wrote poems for the communistdictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
She restored the democratic institutions Marcos had destroyed, presided over the promulgation of a constitution designed to be dictator-proof, freed political prisoners, launched a peace process that eliminated communist and Muslim insurgencies as major threats to national stability, and laid the foundations for economic recovery.
The violent overthrow in December 1989 of the long-ruling Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu has been followed by the establishment of a government by former communist officials, called the National Salvation Front.