Emil Constantinescu

President of Romania

19 November 1939 Tighina, Kingdom of Romania

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29 November 1996 – 20 December 2000

Romanian professor and politician Emil Constantinescu (Romanian pronunciation:  ( listen ) (born 19 November 1939) is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the Civic Alliance. He was the acting chairman of the Democratic Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Forum, the first associative structure of the opposition in Romania, which was later transformed into a centre-right political and electoral alliance known as the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR).