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Much of the bitterness of the campaign stems from questions surrounding the legitimacy of the Salvation Front government and its right to contest the elections. Formed in the aftermath of the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu last December, the Front is dominated by former Communists. These include Ion Iliescu, the country's interim leader and front runner in the presidential race, who was Ceausescu's heir apparent in 1970 before falling out with the dictator...
...where the revolution that led to Ceausescu's ouster and execution began on Dec. 17, the Front's opponents called for a ban on former Communists contesting elections for ten years. Protests against the Front have been staged in other cities, including Bucharest, where thousands gather daily to denounce Iliescu and other former Communists...
...Bucharest sit-in has blocked traffic in one of the capital's main thoroughfares and led Iliescu to denounce the protesters as "vagabonds," a description for which he later apologized. Throughout the country, protesters took to wearing lapel badges inscribed I AM A VAGABOND and renewed their demands for Iliescu to step aside...
...future is fading among many Romanians, only four months after the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Last week crowds of up to 4,000 opponents of the National Salvation Front, the transitional government that took power after Ceausescu's hurried execution, protested in Bucharest against interim President Ion Iliescu, whom they accuse of still sympathizing with communism. Romanian newspapers and witnesses reported that police beat some of the demonstrators, a charge denied by the government...
...demonstrators believe the Front holds an unfair advantage in parliamentary elections slated for May 20. Some charge that the Front may attempt to rig the balloting. Critics say almost 90% of the group's members are former Communists. Iliescu's vow that a "return to the past is impossible" has failed to reassure his detractors. Says Sergiu Cunescu, chairman of the center-right Social Democratic Party: "People live in fear...