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The Romanian Ecologist Party (Romanian: Partidul Ecologist Român, PER) is an ecologist and currently mostly conservative and green conservative political party in Romania, member of the AER Alliance for Romania (Alianța AER pentru România). Without parliamentary representation, it is one of the microparties still active in the country with some representatives elected in the local administration (i.e. a few mayors and county councillors and 210 local councillors), especially in Râmnicu Vâlcea and Vâlcea County, where it is ranked third behind the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Romania's two largest parties. Previously, it collaborated with the Green Party (PV) in the 2008 legislative elections.
Romanian Ecologist Party Partidul Ecologist Român | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Florin Secară |
| President | Mircea Gutău |
| Founder | Adrian Manolache |
| Founded | January 1990 |
| Headquarters | Calea Victoriei nr. 91-93 Sector 1 Bucharest |
| Youth wing | Tineretul Ecologist Român (TER) |
| Ideology | Green conservatism[1] Right-wing populism[2] Romanian nationalism[3] Christian democracy[4] Protectionism[5] Soft euroscepticism[6] Social conservatism[7] Economic nationalism[8] |
| Political position | Fiscal: Centre-left Cultural: Right-wing |
| National affiliation | AER for Romania (Green and Ecologist) |
| Colors | Green |
| Slogan | For a moment nature was not attentive and conceived man; for a moment man is not careful, and nature corrects its mistake" |
| Senate | 0 / 136 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 330 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 33 |
| Mayors | 7 / 3,176 |
| County councilors | 5 / 1,340 |
| Local councilors | 372 / 39,900 |
| Website | |
| www.per.ro | |
History
editThe party was founded by Adrian Manolache, an engineer, in January 1990 as a political organisation opposed to the National Salvation Front (FSN).[9] 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 (PNȚ-CD).[citation needed]
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 (PNL) in April, 1990, also endorsing 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.[citation needed]
The PER participated in the Romanian legislative election held in May 1990, winning one senator seat as well as eight deputy seats.[10] The first (and also founding) president of the party was Adrian Manolache, but the first party congress which was held in April 1990 elected Otto Weber as president until 2001, when he was followed by Cornel Protopopescu until 2007, the latter being subsequently replaced by Dănuț Pop.[citation needed]
In the summer of 2023, the Ecologists announced a restart for the political formation, with a new leadership and announced that they are recalibrating their public agenda in accordance with the themes of the day, from food safety to protecting the environment, in an increasingly complicated context for agriculture and environment in general.[11]
Notable members
edit- 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.
Leadership
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Electoral history
editLegislative elections
edit| Election | Chamber | Senate | Position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
| 1990 | 232,212 | 1.69 | 8 / 395
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192,574 | 1.38 | 1 / 119
|
8th |
| 1992 | Part of CDR | 4 / 341
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Part of CDR | 0 / 143
|
– | ||
| 1996 | Part of CDR | 5 / 343
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Part of CDR | 1 / 143
|
– | ||
| 2000 | 101,256 | 0.84 | 0 / 345
|
108,370 | 0.99 | 0 / 140
|
10th |
| 2004 | 73,001 | 0.72 | 0 / 332
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83,771 | 0.80 | 0 / 137
|
8th |
| 2008 | Part of PVE | 0 / 334
|
Part of PVE | 0 / 137
| |||
| 2012 | 58,178 | 0.79 | 0 / 412
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58,335 | 0.79 | 0 / 176
|
7th |
| 2016 | 62,414 | 0.89 | 0 / 329
|
77,218 | 1.09 | 0 / 136
|
9th |
| 2020 | 65,807 | 1.12 | 0 / 330
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78,654 | 1.33 | 0 / 136
|
8th |
Presidential elections
edit| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Position | Votes | % | Position | ||
| 1990 | did not compete | ||||||
| 1992 | Endorsed Emil Constantinescu of the Romanian Democratic Convention | ||||||
| 1996 | Endorsed Emil Constantinescu of the Romanian Democratic Convention | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
European elections
edit| Election | Votes | % | MEPs | Position | EU Party | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | did not compete | |||||
| 2009 | did not compete | |||||
| 2014 | 64,232 | 1.15% | 0 / 32
|
10th | — | — |
| 2019 | did not compete (endorsed the Social Democratic Party) | |||||
See also
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References
edit- ^ "PER susține căsătoria dintre un bărbat și o femeie". Facebook. 4 October 2018. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26.
- ^ "in PER intra fostii aliati ai lui Dragnea". 4 October 2018.
- ^ "Exclusiv. Scandal în Consiliul Naționalist-Patriot, după articolul EvZ. Diaconu merge pe propriul drum. Ce face Simion". 3 September 2022.
- ^ "Partidul Ecologist se umple cu "deşeurile" altor partide". 28 October 2020.
- ^ "Partidul Ecologist se umple cu "deşeurile" altor partide". 28 October 2020.
- ^ "Partidul Ecologist Român critică dur decizia CJUE: Este inadmisibil să ne dicteze Bruxelles-ul ce să facem!". 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Legea parteneriatului civil nu trebuie să treacă de Senat – Partidul Ecologist Român".
- ^ "Partidul Ecologist Român solicită "naționalizarea" exclusivă a resurselor naturale ale României, apel la Marcel Ciolacu". 6 January 2022.
- ^ Scurtu, Georgiana Margareta (2003). Structuri politice în Europa centrală și de sud-est: 1918-2001 (in Romanian). Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române. p. 284. ISBN 978-973-577-352-6.
- ^ Vulcan, Dora (2020-05-20). "Alegerile din 1990. Iliescu: nu a fost duminica orbului. Acum se manifestă o tentație totalitară". Europa Liberă România (in Romanian). Retrieved 2023-12-30.
- ^ Comunicat, de presă (July 2023). "COMUNICAT". agerpres. p. 1. Retrieved 6 November 2023.[permanent dead link]