Ecologist Party of Romania
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).
Romanian Ecologist Party Partidul Ecologist Român | |
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| 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 (TER) |
| Ideology | Green liberalism[1] Green conservatism[2] |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| 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 |
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| www.per.ro | |
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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 Timișoara) 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.
Notable members
- Viorica Edelhauser, former deputy (between 1990 and 1992)
- Cornel Protopopescu, former deputy (between 1990 and 2000)
- Otto Ernest Weber, second president of the party
- Gheorghe Toma, former mayor of the city of Suceava, Suceava County, Bukovina
Electoral history
Legislative elections
| Election | Chamber | Senate | Position | Aftermath | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 1990 | 232,212 | 1.69 | 8 / 395 |
192,574 | 1.38 | 1 / 119 |
8th | Opposition to FSN government (until October 1991) |
| Opposition to FSN-PNL-MER-PDAR government | ||||||||
| 1992 | 2,117,144 | 19.46 | 4 / 341 |
2,210,722 | 20.16 | 0 / 143 |
2nd (within CDR)1 |
Opposition to PDSR-PUNR-PRM government |
| 1996 | 3,692,321 | 30.17 | 5 / 343 |
3,772,084 | 30.70 | 1 / 143 |
1st (within CDR)2 |
CDR-USD-UDMR |
| 2000 | 101,256 | 0.84 | 0 / 345 |
108,370 | 0.99 | 0 / 140 |
10th | Extra-parliamentary opposition to PDSR minority government |
| 2004 | 73,001 | 0.72 | 0 / 332 |
83,771 | 0.80 | 0 / 137 |
8th | Extra-parliamentary support to DA-PUR-UDMR government (until April 2007) |
| Extra-parliamentary opposition to PNL-UDMR minority government | ||||||||
| 2008 | 18,279 | 0.27 | 0 / 334 |
48,119 | 0.70 | 0 / 137 |
10th (within Green Ecologist Party)3 |
Extra-parliamentary support to PDL-PSD government (until December 2009) |
| Extra-parliamentary support to PDL-UNPR-UDMR (until May 2012) | ||||||||
| Extra-parliamentary opposition to USL government (until December 2012) | ||||||||
| 2012 | 58,178 | 0.79 | 0 / 412 |
58,335 | 0.79 | 0 / 176 |
7th | Extra-parliamentary opposition to USL government (until March 2014) |
| Extra-parliamentary support to PSD-UNPR-UDMR-PC government (until December 2014) | ||||||||
| Extra-parliamentary support to PSD-UNPR-ALDE government (until November 2015) | ||||||||
| Extra-parliamentary opposition to Cioloș Cabinet (Ind.) | ||||||||
| 2016 | 62,414 | 0.89 | 0 / 329 |
77,218 | 1.09 | 0 / 136 |
9th | Extra-parliamentary support to PSD-ALDE government (until August 2019) |
| Extra-parliamentary support to PSD minority government (until November 2019) | ||||||||
| Extra-parliamentary opposition to PNL minority government | ||||||||
Notes:
1 CDR members in 1992: PNȚCD (21 senators and 41 deputies), PAC (7 senators and 13 deputies), PNL-CD (4 senators and 3 deputies), PNL-AT (1 senator and 11 deputies) and PSDR (1 senator and 10 deputies) and FER.
2 CDR members in 1996: PNȚCD (25 senators and 81 deputies), PNL (22 senators and 28 deputies), PNL-CD (1 senator and 4 deputies), PAR (3 senators and 3 deputies), Ecologist Federation of Romania (FER – 1 senator and 1 deputy).
3 Green Ecologist Party members: Green Party.
Presidential elections
| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | ||||
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| Votes | Percentage | Position | Votes | Percentage | Position | ||
| 1990 | did not compete | ||||||
| 1992 | Emil Constantinescu1 | 3,717,006 | 31.1% | 2nd | 4,641,207 | 38.6% | 2nd |
| 1996 | Emil Constantinescu1 | 3,569,941 | 28.2% | 2nd | 7,057,906 | 54.4% | 1st |
| 2000 | did not compete | ||||||
| 2004 | did not compete | ||||||
| 2009 | Ovidiu-Cristian Iane | 22,511 | 0.23% | 11th | |||
| 2014 | William Brînză | 43,194 | 0.45% | 12th | |||
| 2019 | did not compete | ||||||
Notes:
1 Emil Constantinescu was the common centre-right candidate that was endorsed by the Ecologist Party of Romania (PER) in both 1992 and 1996 as part of the CDR.
References
- "Platformă-Program". Archived from the original on 25 December 2014. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- "PER susține căsătoria dintre un bărbat și o femeie". 4 October 2018.
