 Complete the following phrase:  Following the fall of the regime at the end of that year, he was awarded important posts and honors as an elder statesman of the National Salvation Front FSN, and as part of its council belonged to a group who had fallen foul of Ceauşescu. Among the positions he held was the Senate Presidency, from June 1990 to October 1992, having been elected in May for a Bucharest seat. While in this office, he spoke in January 1991 in commemoration of 