The Red Quadrilateral was a term used to describe the Romanian government between the 1992 and 1996 legislative elections. The 'Quadrilateral

Quadrilateral

In Euclidean plane geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides and four vertices or corners. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used, by analogy with triangle, and sometimes tetragon for consistency with pentagon , hexagon and so on...

' consisted of the Democratic National Salvation Front

Social Democratic Party (Romania)

The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...

 (a major party, led by Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party , whose honorary president he remains....

, when he became President of Romania and had to leave the party, led by Adrian Năstase

Adrian Nastase

Adrian Năstase is a Romanian politician who was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.He competed as the Social Democratic Party candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but was defeated by centre-right Justice and Truth Alliance candidate Traian Băsescu.He was...

), the nationalist Romanian National Unity Party

Romanian National Unity Party

The Romanian National Unity Party was a political party in Romania between 1990 and 2006.PUNR was the first nationalist party in post-Communist Romania, created in 1990....

 of Gheorghe Funar

Gheorghe Funar

Gheorghe Funar is a nationalist Romanian politician, who rose to fame as mayor of Cluj-Napoca between 1992 and 2004-Biography:...

 and the Greater Romania Party

Greater Romania Party

The Greater Romania Party is a Romanian radical right-wing, ultra-nationalist political party, led by Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The party is sometimes referred to in English as the Great Romania Party....

 (at that time national-communist) of Corneliu Vadim Tudor

Corneliu Vadim Tudor

Corneliu Vadim Tudor is leader of the Greater Romania Party , writer, journalist and a Member of the European Parliament...

, and the neo-communist Socialist Party of Labour

Socialist Party of Labour

The Socialist Party of Labour was a socialist-nationalist political party in Romania. The party has also been labelled as neo-communist. It was founded on 16 November, 1990. The chairman of the party was Ilie Verdeţ, former premier under Nicolae Ceauşescu...

 of Ceauşescu era

Communist Romania

Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...

 Prime Minister Ilie Verdeţ

Ilie Verdet

Ilie Verdeţ was a Romanian politician.Born in Comăneşti, Bacău County, and a miner from age 12, he joined the Romanian Communist Party in 1945. After graduating from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, he climbed through the Party apparatus...

.

The coalition supported President Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu

Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party , whose honorary president he remains....

 and Prime Minister Nicolae Văcăroiu

Nicolae Vacaroiu

Nicolae Văcăroiu is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party, who served as Prime Minister between 1992 and 1996. Before the 1989 Revolution he worked at the Committee for State Planning, together with Theodor Stolojan....

. (See also Văcăroiu I Cabinet

Vacaroiu I Cabinet

Nicolae Văcăroiu's cabinet 1992–1996Coalition members: , , and Prime Minister:*Nicolae VăcăroiuMinisters of State:*Mişu Negriţoiu/Mircea Coşea*Dan Mircea Popescu*Teodor Meleşcanu*Florin GeorgescuMinisters:...

.)

During the last year, Vadim's party officially left the coalition but continued to support it in the Parliament. Funar's and Verdeţ' parties did not pass the threshold in 1996, while the other two parties joined the opposition.