The Provisional Council of National Unity (PCNU; ro, Consiliul Provizoriu de Uniune Națională, ) was a provisional governmental body during the early 1990s in

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. At that time, it was headed by

Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu (; born 3 March 1930) is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as President of Romania from 1989 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004. Between 1996 and 2000 and also from 2004 to 2008, the year in which he retired, Iliescu ...

of the National Salvation Front (FSN) along with a wide range of vice-presidents which also stemmed from various other political parties which acceded to the Romanian Parliament at that time, most notably Radu Câmpeanu, the first post-1989 president of the National Liberal Party (PNL), who was also vice-president of the

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at the time. The PCNU was founded shortly after the 1990 general election held in May during that year on a famous Sunday (colloquially known as the "Blindman's Sunday" or in

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) dissolved in 1991, one year prior to then forthcoming 1992 general election.

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