The Provisional Council of National Unity (PCNU; ro, Consiliul Provizoriu de Uniune Națională, ) was a provisional governmental body during the early 1990s in
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, a ...
. 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
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the e ...
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
Romanian
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**Romanian cuisine, traditiona ...
) dissolved in 1991, one year prior to then forthcoming
1992 general election.
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