The implementation of a Parlamentary tradition in Romania is a long process that started at the beginning of the 19th century in complex international circumstances that brought into attention the Otoman Empire, Russia, France and Prusia. After the period when Romania had unicameral Parliament, during the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, there was the opportunity of developing a bicameral Parliament that remained in this form untill the end of the Second World War. From 1948 up to 1989, during the communist period, the Romanian Parliament became unicameral again. This change, with its beneffits, continued until the tragic events of 1989, when the interbelic tradition made the Romanians choose a bicameral Parliament, a model that is still working nowadays.