Infighting, especially between Mazilu and Iliescu, plagued the Nation Salvation Front, and made many of its members wary of the new provisional government's ability to arrive at decisions. Mazilu wanted capitalism, Roman wanted socialism, and Iliescu wanted to keep communism in place, but merely remove Ceaușescu. As a member of the Communist Party, who greatly revered figures such as Ștefan Foriș, whose death had been ordered by Ceaușescu's predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Dan tended toward sympathy for Iliescu, making his loyalties known for when Mazilu was pushed out of the party by Iliescu and other senior party members.
