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Which political party did Marțian Dan belong to in Dec 1989?
Marțian Dan Marțian Dan ( 23 November 1935 – 8 March 2002 ) was a Romanian politician and university professor . Dan was a member of the Romanian Communist Party during the period of the Socialist Republic of Romania . In 1971 , he became a leader in the Union of Communist Youth , a position that allowed him to serve as Minister in the union from 1971–1972 . In 1974 , he briefly distanced himself from the world of politics due to grievances with the Ceaușescu regime . Dan was a leader in the Romanian Revolution , and was a member of the Council of the National Salvation Front , in which he served as secretary of the executive office . He joined the National Salvation Front as a political party in 1990 under the leadership of Ion Iliescu . Early political career . In the 1950s , as Dan attended high school in Oradea , he joined the Union of Communist Youth , a youth organization of the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) , which had held power in the country since the fall of fascist dictator , Ion Antonescu . From 1954-1955 he was a student of the Faculty of General Economics of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest , and from 1955-1960 he relocated to the Soviet Union , to take courses at the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov State University of Moscow . In this phase , he succeeded in getting himself elected as a member of the Union of Communist Youth committee of the faculty and secretary of the organizations Romanian students in Moscow . After graduating in 1960 , Dan began a teaching career at the University of Bucharest in the Department of History and Philosophy , where he taught until 1989 . In the 1960s he continued political militancy within Bucharest , climbing the leadership of the youth organization of the party , which allowed him , in March 1971 , to succeed Ion Iliescu as first secretary of the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth and , for that reason , as Minister for Youth Affairs in the Government of Ion Gheorghe Maurer . He left the position in October 1972 . In addition to activism in the Union of Communist Youth , Dan also had connections within the Communist Party of Romania itself . In 1968 , under the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu , he was appointed as secretary and was responsible for propaganda within the City Committee of Bucharest , while on 12 August 1969 he succeeded in being appointed as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania . In November 1974 he withdrew from political life , apparently because of a difference of views with the then-president of the socialist republic , Nicolae Ceaușescu , concerning management of the country . He concentrated , therefore , almost exclusively on his teaching career . During the Romanian Revolution . With outbreak of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , during the power vacuum and the subsequent violence , Marțian Dan , alongside other communist dissidents such as Ion Iliescu , Petre Roman , Dumitru Mazilu , Silviu Brucan , Corneliu Mănescu , Victor Stănculescu and Alexandru Bârlădeanu , promoted the creation of a provisional legislative body , and formed the Council of the National Salvation Front ( CFSN ) which took power in late December 1989 and oversaw the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife . After the execution , on 27 December Dan was designated by the group led by Iliescu as Secretary of the CFSN Executive Office . The executive group of the council was composed of former major PCR members , that had never denied their adherence to communist ideals , but that had lost faith in Ceaușescu as a leader . In February 1990 Iliescu founded the party of National Salvation Front ( FSN ) , which was formed by an overwhelming majority of CFSN members . At the same time , this was renamed the Interim Council of the National Union ( CPUN ) and it also allowed the participation of other party representatives that had been created after the Revolutions conclusion . The platform , however , followed the organisation of the CFSN , the majority were members of the FSN and its management was confirmed with very few variations . Marțian was secretary of the executive office also in the new entity , which was in charge of holding free elections and enacting the first laws in any democratic sense . Infighting , especially between Mazilu and Iliescu , plagued the Nation Salvation Front , and made many of its members wary of the new provisional governments ability to arrive at decisions . Mazilu wanted capitalism , Roman wanted socialism , and Iliescu wanted to keep communism in place , but merely remove Ceaușescu . As a member of the Communist Party , who greatly revered figures such as Ștefan Foriș , whose death had been ordered by Ceaușescus predecessor , Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , Dan tended toward sympathy for Iliescu , making his loyalties known for when Mazilu was pushed out of the party by Iliescu and other senior party members . Member of Parliament . In the first democratic elections in May 1990 , the FSN held a plebiscite that allowed it to control 2/3 of the parliament . Marțian Dan observed the election as deputy in the Vaslui district and , in June 1990 , was appointed president of the Chamber of Deputies , holding office for the entire constituent legislature until October 1992 . He was also a member of the committee drafting the draft Rules of the Chamber and co-chairman of the Constituent Assembly ( July 1990-November 1991 ) . By this time , the FSN had left behind any notion that Communism should be kept in place . Instead , Dan and Iliescu tended toward social democracy , whereas Petre Roman remained loyal to socialism as an ideology . In the spring of 1992 the FSN experienced a split as a result of the clash between the two conflicting tendencies within the party . The FSN itself , led by the president of the republic Ion Iliescu , was a promoter of a line of slow transition to the market economy through social democracy , and former Prime Minister Petre Roman desired to keep the democratic socialism that had remained a strong ideological attraction throughout the revolution . In response to this conflict , Iliescu founded the Democratic National Salvation Front ( FDSN ) , while the counterpart party led by Roman maintained the original initials . Iliescu , with Dan in his cabinet , attended the parliamentary and presidential elections of 1992 under the new party name . Dan remained loyal to Iliescus new party , which successfully established itself as the largest political party in the national elections of 1992 . The following year , the party changed its name to the Social Democratic Party of Romania ( PDSR ) . Dan , considered one of the leaders of the revolution by much of the Romanian population , became party leader in the House , as well as national vice president of the PDSR serving under Adrian Năstase , a colleague from Dans party . Following a 1996 defeat to the centre-right Romanian Democratic Convention ( CDR ) , the PDSR moved to the opposition . Dan was reelected for another 4-year term in office , holding varying positions during this time . Final years . At the end of his parliamentary term in June 2001 , Dan became the Romanian ambassador to Portugal , a position he retained until his death on 8 March 2002 . On 12 March 2002 , Dan was adorned with the Order of the Star of Romania by President Ion Iliescu due to his status as one of the leaders who brought democracy to Romania . Personal life . Dan was married , and he had two children Awards and honours . : Order of the Star of Romania ( Romania )