d'Honneur during a ceremony in Bucharest. Regarding Emil Constantinescu's election as the CDR's candidate for the presidential office in 1992, Coposu stated: "The candidate was elected in an absolutely democratic manner. The appointment of the candidate of the Democratic Convention for the position of president of the country was made according to the most authentic democratic rules. All five candidates had the moral stature and prestige to honor the highest magistracy of the country. We, the Democratic Convention, wish the only candidate, elected by the vote of the 67 major presidential electors, to succeed in the elections and to achieve his first goal, which is the eradication of communism in Romania." Death He died in Bucharest while undergoing treatment for lung cancer. Some 100,000 people attended his funeral three days later. He was buried in the Catholic section of Bellu cemetery. One of the main thoroughfares in the capital now bears his name. A bust of Coposu now stands next to Kretzulescu Church, in Revolution Square. In a 2006 poll conducted by Romanian Television to identify the "greatest Romanians of all time", Coposu came in 39th. Notes References "Distrugerea ţărănimii" ("The Destruction of the Peasant Class"), in Jurnalul Naţional Adrian Cioroianu, Pe umerii lui Marx. O introducere în istoria comunismului românesc ("On the Shoulders of Marx. An Incursion into the History of Romanian Communism"), Editura Curtea Veche, Bucharest, 2005 ; Corneliu Coposu, File dintr-un jurnal interzis. 1936-1947, 1953, 1967-1983, ediție îngrijită de Doina Alexandru (București: Editura Vremea, 2014), ; Cristian Fulger, Tudor Călin Zarojanu (editori), Seniorul Corneliu Coposu (București: Humanitas, 2014), ; Dennis Deletant, Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965–1989, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1995 Gabriela Gheorghe, Adelina Huminic, "Istoria mineriadelor din anii 1990–1991" ("The History of the 1990–1991 Mineriads"), in Sfera Politicii Robert Levy, Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001; Mărturisiri. Corneliu Coposu în dialog cu Vartan Arachelian, ediția a 3-a (București: Fundația Academia Civică, 2014) [prima ediție, 1991]; Nicolae Prelipceanu's interview with Corneliu Coposu, in Agora, IV/4, October–December 1991, pp. 29–40; Pavel, Dan; Huiu, Iulia (2003), "Nu putem reuși decît împreună." O istorie analitică a Convenției Democratice, 1989-2000, Iași: Editura Polirom, ; Toma Roman jr., "Nobleţe – Modestie princiară" ("Noblesse – Princely Modesty"), in Jurnalul Naţional, 25 August 2005 Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 (translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: