Red Quadrilateral

The Red Quadrilateral was a term used by the Romanian 1990s media to describe the political alliance that supported the Romanian government between the 1992 and 1996 legislative elections.
The 'Quadrilateral', informal at first, consisted of the Democratic Front of National Salvation, the nationalist Romanian National Unity Party of Gheorghe Funar and the Greater Romania Party of Corneliu Vadim Tudor, and the neo-communist Socialist Party of Labour of Ceaușescu era Prime Minister Ilie Verdeț. As Parliament support for the FDSN government was dwindling, the alliance was made official in January 1995.
Only the PDSR and the PUNR were awarded government portfolios, the other two only receiving lower-level positions in the government. Sometimes the Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania, leading some journalists to label it the Red Pentagon. However, the PDAR went into the opposition in 1994.
The coalition supported President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Nicolae Văcăroiu.
During the last year, Vadim's party officially left the coalition but continued to support it in the Parliament. Funar's and Verdeț' parties alongside PDAR's coalition did not pass the threshold in 1996, while the other two parties joined the opposition.