Niculae Cerveni (born 19 March 1926 in Cervenia, Teleorman, Kingdom of Romania–deceased 16 January 2004 in Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian lawyer and politician who served both as deputy and senator during the 1990s.
[1] He was a political prisoner after he opposed the communist dictatorship which was enforced in the Kingdom of Romania by the Soviets.
[3] Subsequently, Cerveni became vice-president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) under the presidency term of Radu Câmpeanu during the early 1990s.
Furthermore, during the early 1990s, before the 1990 Romanian general election, he was a fierce contender of former President Ion Iliescu within the former Provisional Council of National Unity (Romanian: Consiliul Provizoriu de Uniune Națională; CPUN).
In 2000, Niculae Cerveni ran for president in that year's Romanian presidential election on behalf of his newly founded political party, the Romanian Liberal Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Liberal Democrat Român; PLDR), but with no major electoral result in the first round.