Ecologist Party of Romania

Romanian Ecologist Party
Partidul Ecologist Român
President Dănuţ Pop
Secretary-General Ionel Goidescu
Founder Adrian Manolache
Founded January 1990
Headquarters Calea Victoriei nr. 91-93
Sector 1
Bucharest
Youth wing Tineretul Ecologist Român (OTER)
Ideology Green liberalism[1]
Political position Centre
Colors Green
Slogan Pentru o ecologie politică liberală
For a liberal political ecology
Senate
0 / 136
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 329
European Parliament
0 / 33
County Councilors
8 / 1,338
Local Councilors
290 / 39,121
Website
www.per.ro
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The Romanian Ecologist Party (Romanian: Partidul Ecologist Român), abbreviated as PER, is an ecologist political party in Romania. Without parliamentary representation, it is one of the micro-parties still active in the country with some representatives elected in the local administration (i.e. a few mayors, local councillors, and county councillors).

History

The party was founded by Adrian Manolache, an engineer, in January 1990 as a political organisation opposed to the National Salvation Front (FSN). Adrian Manolache launched the program and the platform of the PER on 5 January, 1990 in the newspaper Libertatea, being one of the newly founded parties in Romania and the second post-1989 registered one after the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD).

This party opposed the politics of the FSN from a very early stage and entered in an alliance with Radu Câmpeanu's National Liberal Party in April, 1990, also supporting the Timișoara Proclamation (Romanian: Proclamația de la Timisoara) which demanded that the former structures and members of the Romanian Communist Party should not get involved again in post-revolutionary politics.

The PER participated in the Romanian legislative election held in May, 1990, winning one senator seat as well as eight deputy seats. The first president of the party was Adrian Manolache, but the first party congress in April, 1990 elected Otto Weber as president (until 2001), when followed by Cornel Protopopescu (until 2007), the latter being subsequently replaced by Dănuț Pop.

Electoral history

Legislative elections

ElectionVotes%ChamberSenatePositionGovernment
1990 192,574 1.38
1 / 395
8 / 119
 8th Opposition
1992 2,210,722 20.16 (as CDR)
0 / 341
4 / 143
 2nd (as CDR) Opposition
1996 3,772,084 30.7 (as CDR)
1 / 343
5 / 143
 1st (as CDR) Grand Coalition
2000 108,370 0.99
0 / 345
0 / 140
 10th Extra-parliamentary opposition
2004 83,771 0.80
0 / 332
0 / 137
 8th Extra-parliamentary
2008 48,119 0.70 (as Green Ecologist Party)
0 / 334
0 / 137
 10th (as Green Ecologist Party) Extra-parliamentary
2012 58,335 0.79
0 / 412
0 / 176
 7th Extra-parliamentary opposition
2016 77,218 1.09
0 / 329
0 / 136
 9th Extra-parliamentary opposition

Presidential elections

ElectionCandidateVotes%Position
2009 Ovidiu-Cristian Iane 22,515 0.23 11th
2014 William Brînză 43,194 0.45 12th

European elections

ElectionVotes%MEPsPositionPolitical group
2014 64,232 1.15
0 / 32
 10th –

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Platformă-Program". Retrieved 25 December 2014.
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