Emil Constantinescu was President

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 of Romania

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 from 1996 to 2000.

He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest

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, and subsequently started a career as a geologist. Beginning in 1966, Constantinescu taught in the Geology Faculty of the University of Bucharest, where he also became Propaganda Secretary of the local organisation of the Romanian Communist Party

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After the Romanian revolution

Romanian Revolution of 1989

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 in 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the Civic Alliance

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