BRASOV : A Political Showdown
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A long-awaited showdown between reformers and neo-Communist die-hards is likely in this Transylvanian city Saturday when the splintered National Salvation Front chooses a presidential candidate for Romania’s Sept. 27 election.
Party leader Petre Roman, Romania’s former prime minister, has denounced President Ion Iliescu as a holdover from the era of dictatorship that formally ended with the ouster and execution of tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu in December, 1989.
But Iliescu, a founding member of the Front, won 85% of the presidential vote in Romania’s first post-Ceausescu elections in May, 1990, and has made clear he expects to be nominated again despite Roman’s objections.
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