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Romania’s first democratic leader with a divisive legacy

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Mircea Barbu

BBC News in Bucharest

Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Iliescu poses and looks straight down the camera with a slight smile. He is leaning on a stone balcony and wearing a grey suit.Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

Iliescu at Romania’s presidential palace in 1993, during his first of three terms in office

Ion Iliescu, a figure whose name is intertwined with the tumultuous birth of…

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