groups created in that interval, alongside a Romanian Democratic Popular Realist Revolutionary Party and a Party of Heroes Killed for the Freedom of Living Heroes Maimed by the Barbarian Bullets. Unlike these highly localized projects, the PLS ran candidates in 26 precincts, and formed small but active county organizations—according to Cazimir, these were mostly run by divorcée ladies. The PLS received around 0.3% of the vote in both the Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections. Although it failed to win any senatorial mandates, it took a single seat in the Chamber, which went to Cazimir. In his early speeches at Cervantes, Cazimir had joked that they only ran in elections "because I was tired of things going smooth." He used his speaking time in Chamber mainly to popularize the sayings of Caragiale and Ion Creangă, as well as his own epigrams. At times, Cazimir also expressed mild criticism of the FSN as the party of "dead roses", and commented negatively on the June 1990 Mineriad, braving threats of violence from the Front's working-class electorate. However, journalist George Baltac believes that the PLS "deliberately" helped the FSN to fragment the voting weight for the National-Peasantist opposition with "an explosion of minuscule parties." He notes that Cazimir, as a "left-wing intellectual", had a personal relationship with FSN leader Ion Iliescu. Likewise, commentator Andrei Manolescu argues that "[Cazimir's] humor and irony turned into actual opportunism." Although the legislation updated in 1992 provided an election threshold, which harmed its chances, the PLS continued to be active, and staged high-profile stunts. In one such event, its delegation to Brussels made Manneken Pis an honorary party member. The party also contested the February 1992 elections for local councils: it fielded 75 candidates for the General Council of Bucharest (the maximum allowed by law) and endorsed Tudor Popescu as its candidate for Mayor. In the end, it elected several councilors throughout the country, and only one at Bucharest. Cazimir defected to Iliescu's Social Democratic Party (PSD) later that year, and in the elections of September the party's vote share fell to 0.1%, resulting in it losing its single seat in Chamber. Interviewed in 2010, Cazimir suggested that his move to the PSD was a continuation of PLS goals. Cornișteanu, who succeeded him as ad-interim president, argues that Cazimir "betrayed" the party statues, and notes that he was listed as an "abandoned member". The PLS was ultimately disbanded