Kingdom of Romania

The Kingdom of Romania (Romanian: Regatul României) is a constitutional parliamentary monarchy which declared independence on 13 March 1881, specified by the four Constitutions of Romania (1866,1923,1938 and 1993). The Kingdom of Romania began with the reign of King Carol I of Romania who gained Romanian's independence in the Romanian War of Independence, but its existance was interrupted by the abdication of King Michael I of Romania in 30 December 1947, imposed by the Soviet Union with the tacit and secret consent of the Allies. For the next 42 years Romania had been a single-party communist state, which ended with the First Romanian Revolution of 1989. A newly democratic republic was formed on 22 December 1989, by intellectuals and former members of the historical parties but the National Salvation Front took control of the government in the early months of 1990. In spite of taking partial multi-party democratic and free market measures and succeeding in taking back the Romanian-speaking territories taken by the Soviets in 1940 (in fact purchasing them), the organization was made up of neo-communists backed by USSR and they refused to recognize the points of the Timișoara declaration. In 1992, dissatisfied people took part in a long pro-democracy demonstration in Aviators' Square which immediately turned into a revolution, stimulated by the second visit of the Romanian Royal Family (including King Michael I) an the parliamentary elections that year in which Romanian Demoratic Convention won. Around 3,5 million people joined the early protesters. The protests spreaded in the entire country and some counties in Banat and Transylvania tried to seccede from Romania and create an independent kingdom. Ion Iliescu, seeing the statee of the nation, declared martial law, but it proved ineffective, and went in exile. King Michael became again the rightfull ruler of Romania and United Kingdom, Sweden, The Netherlands and Spain were the first nations to recognize the Kingdom. King Michael I abdicated in 2012, and the current monarch of Romania is Margharet I of Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, while the current prime minister is Ana Blandiana.