Since the December revolution, the interim government has sought to give better treatment to the ethnic Hungarians and 13 other minorities in the country.

But the heart of the protest has been anti-Communism, based on the fear that the December revolution did not do the job of killing the beast.

In the heady weeks after the December 1989 revolution, three senior police and security officials were tried and sentenced to long prison terms.

The front, which plans to run in national elections on May 20, sprang suddenly into prominence in the first hours of the December revolution.

Mr. Bacanu was in a Bucharest jail in time for the December revolution.

He had been found guilty of ordering security forces to fire on demonstrators in Sibiu during the December 1989 revolution, resulting in 89 deaths.

From the outset of the December revolution questions were raised about the background of the personalities who assumed power.

The elder Ceausescus were executed after the December revolution.

The Securitate was officially dissolved immediately after the December revolution, although several thousand of its officers remained on the Government payroll.

He was humiliated because the December revolution should have begun in jassy, not in Timisoara.