Bayan da mulkin gurguzu ya ƙare kuma aka kashe tsohon dan mulkin gurguzu Nicolae Ceaușescu a tsakiyar juyin juya halin Romania na Disamba 1989, National Ceto Front (FSN) ta kwace mulki, karkashin jagorancin Ion Iliescu.FSN ta rikide ta zama babbar jam'iyyar siyasa cikin kankanin lokaci kuma ta yi nasara a babban zaben watan Mayun 1990, tare da Iliescu a matsayin shugaban kasa.Wadannan watanni na farko na 1990 sun kasance masu zanga-zangar adawa da zanga-zangar adawa da zanga-zanga, wanda ya shafi mafi yawan masu tayar da hankali da kuma mummunan masu hakar kwal na Jiu Valley wanda Iliescu da kansa da FSN suka kira don murkushe masu zanga-zangar lumana a dandalin jami'a a Bucharest.Daga baya, gwamnatin Romania ta ɗauki wani shiri na sauye-sauyen tattalin arziki na kasuwa kyauta da mai da hannun jari, bin layi na karatun digiri maimakon jiyya a cikin farkon farkon 1990s.An ci gaba da yin gyare-gyaren tattalin arziki, duk da cewa an sami ci gaban tattalin arziki kaɗan har zuwa shekarun 2000.Sauye-sauyen zamantakewa jim kadan bayan juyin juya halin Musulunci ya hada da sassauta takunkumin da aka yi na hana haihuwa da zubar da ciki.Daga baya gwamnatoci sun aiwatar da ƙarin canje-canjen manufofin zamantakewa.An kafa gyare-gyaren siyasa bisa sabon kundin tsarin mulkin dimokuradiyya da aka amince da shi a shekarar 1991. FSN ta rabu a waccan shekarar, ta fara lokacin gwamnatocin haɗin gwiwar da ya ci gaba har zuwa 2000, lokacin da jam'iyyar Iliecu's Social Democratic Party (sai jam'iyyar Social Democracy a Romania, PDSR, yanzu PSD). ), ya dawo mulki kuma Iliescu ya sake zama shugaban kasa, tare da Adrian Năstase a matsayin Firayim Minista.Wannan gwamnati ta fadi a zaben 2004 a sakamakon zargin cin hanci da rashawa, kuma ta samu nasara da wasu gamayyar kungiyoyin da ba su da kwanciyar hankali wadanda ake zarginsu da irin wannan zargi.A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, Romania ta ƙara haɗa kai tare da Yamma, ta zama memba na Ƙungiyar Yarjejeniyar Tsaro ta Arewacin Atlantic (NATO) a 2004 ^[103] da na Tarayyar Turai (EU) a 2007. ^[104]