User:TNTBot/testing/citeExpand/1989 Romanian Council of the National Salvation Front president election

A presidential election was held in Romania on 26 December 1989.

Ion Iliescu was elected by the Council of the National Salvation Front as the body's president - hence as acting-president of Romania - in a meeting held on 26 December 1989. The following day, on 27 December 1989, the Council of the National Salvation Front also chose its Executive Office members. The vote count was never published.

The former president Nicolae Ceaușescu was in the impossibility of acting as president after his flight from the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, at noon, 22 December 1989. In the evening of that day, he was captured at a Botanical Institute in the outskirts of Târgoviște, detained at a nearby military unit, where he and his wife were executed after a quick trial on 25 December 1989.

The Council of the National Salvation Front was created on 22 December 1989. In February 1990, it was transformed into the Provisional Council of National Unity, with the inclusion of 112 political parties representatives (3 per each party), 27 national minorities representatives and 3 representatives of the former political enprisoned (besides 112 representatives of the National Salvation Front).