Ecologist Party of Romania

Ecologist political party in Romania
Romanian Ecologist Party
Partidul Ecologist Român
LeaderFlorin Secară
PresidentMircea Gutău
FounderAdrian Manolache
FoundedJanuary 1990
HeadquartersCalea Victoriei nr. 91-93
Sector 1
Bucharest
Youth wingTineretul Ecologist Român (TER)
IdeologyGreen conservatism[1]
Right-wing populism[2]
Romanian nationalism[3]
Christian democracy[4]
Protectionism[5]
Soft euroscepticism[6]
Social conservatism[7]
Economic nationalism[8]
Political positionFiscal: Centre-left
Cultural: Right-wing
National affiliationAER for Romania (Green and Ecologist)
Colors

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 behing 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.

History

The party was founded by Adrian Manolache [ro], 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

  • 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

Electoral history

Legislative elections

Election Chamber Senate Position
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
1990 232,212 1.69
8 / 395
 192,574 1.38
1 / 119
 8th
1992 Part of CDR
4 / 341
 Part of CDR
0 / 143
 –
1996 Part of CDR
5 / 343
 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
 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
 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
 78,654 1.33
0 / 136
 8th

Presidential elections

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

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

  • iconEnvironment portal
  • iconEcology portal

References

  1. ^ "PER susține căsătoria dintre un bărbat și o femeie". Facebook. 4 October 2018. Archived from the original on 2022-02-26.
  2. ^ "in PER intra fostii aliati ai lui Dragnea". 4 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Exclusiv. Scandal în Consiliul Naționalist-Patriot, după articolul EvZ. Diaconu merge pe propriul drum. Ce face Simion".
  4. ^ "Partidul Ecologist se umple cu "deşeurile" altor partide". 28 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Partidul Ecologist se umple cu "deşeurile" altor partide". 28 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Partidul Ecologist Român critică dur decizia CJUE: Este inadmisibil să ne dicteze Bruxelles-ul ce să facem!". 21 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Legea parteneriatului civil nu trebuie să treacă de Senat – Partidul Ecologist Român".
  8. ^ "Partidul Ecologist Român solicită "naționalizarea" exclusivă a resurselor naturale ale României, apel la Marcel Ciolacu". 6 January 2022.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Comunicat, de presă (July 2023). "COMUNICAT". agerpres. p. 1. Retrieved 6 November 2023.[permanent dead link]

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