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Romania has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. A multi-party system is a type of party system. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...

Present-day parliamentary parties

This is a list of present-day political parties in Romania with current (as of 2004) parliamentary representation, in order of the number or representatives they have in the Chamber of Deputies. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Social Democratic Party (Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) - Separated from FSN in 1992 as Frontul Democrat al Salvării Naţionale (FDSN), changed name to PDSR in 1993, absorbed PSDR in 2001, at the same time changing its name to PSD. See also Social democrat.
• National Liberal Party (Partidul Naţional Liberal, PNL) - one of the current governing parties.
• Democratic Party (Partidul Democrat, PD) - created in 1989 as Frontul Salvării Naţionale (FSN) - National Salvation Front, changed name to PD in 1993. Now one of the current governing parties.
• Great Romania People's Party (Partidul Popular România Mare, PPRM) - see also Corneliu Vadim Tudor.
• Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România, UDMR) - the only ethnic minority party with parliamentary representation.
• Conservative Party (Partidul Conservator) - name changed May 2005, was Humanist Party of Romania (Partidul Umanist din România, PUR)

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Present-day non-parliamentary parties

This is a list of present-day political parties in Romania that lack current (as of 2004) parliamentary representation, in alphabetical order by their Romanian names. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• People's Action (Acţiunea Populară, AP)
• Christian Democratic People's Alliance (Alianţa Populară Creştin-Democrată, APCD)
• Democratic Force( Forţa Democrată, FD)
• Socialist Alliance Party (Partidul Alianţa Socialistă, PAS)
• Ecologist Party of Romania (Partidul Ecologist din România)
• Popular Christian Democratic Party (Partidul Popular Creştin-Democrat, PPCD)
• New Generation Party (Partidul Noua Generaţie, PNG)
• Democratic Youth Party (Partidul Tineretului Democrat, PTD)
• Romanian National Unity Party (Partidul Unităţii Naţionale a Românilor, PUNR)
• Union for Romanian Reconstruction (Uniunea pentru Reconstrucţia României, URR)

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Present-day Ethnic Minority parties

• Association of Italians of Romania (Asociaţia Italienlor din România)
• Bulgarian Union of the Banat - Romania (Uniunea Bulgara din Banat - România)
• Cultural Union of Ruthenians of Romania (Uniunea Culturală a Rutenilor din România)
• Democratic Forum of Germans of Romania (Forumul Democrat al Germanilor din România)
• Democratic Union of Slovaks and Czechs in Romania (Uniunea Democratică a Slovacilor s,i Cehilor din România)
• Democratic Union of Turco-Islamic Tatars of Romania (Uniunea Democrată a Tătarilor Turco-Musulmani din România)
• Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania (Federaţia Comunitatilor Evreiesti din România)
• Greek Union of Romania (Uniunea Elena din România)
• League of Albanians of Romania (Liga Albanezilor din România)
• Lipovenian Rusian Comunity of Romania (Comunitatea Ruşilor Lipoveni din România)
• Social Democratic Roma Party of Romania (Partida Romilor Social Democrată din România)
• Turkish Democratic Union of Romania (Uniunea Democrată Turcă din România)
• Union of Armenians of Romania (Uniunea Armenilor din România)
• Union of Croatians of Romania (Uniunea Croaţilor din România)
• Union of Poles of Romania Dom Polski (Uniunea Polonezilor din România 'Dom Polski')
• Union of Serbs of Romania (Uniunea Sărbilor din România)
• Union of Slavonic Macedonians of Romania (Asociaţia Macedonenilor Slavi din România)
• Union of Ukrainians of Romania (Uniunea Ucrainienilor din România)

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Other post-1989 parties

To the best of our knowledge, these parties are no longer active.

• Alianţa Natională Creştin Democrată (ANCD) - National Christian Democrat Alliance - absorbed into PNŢCD
• Alianţa pentru România (ApR) - Alliance for Romania - absorbed into PNL in August 2001.
• Convenţia Democrată Română (CDR) - Romanian Democratic Convention - alliance created in 1992 by PNŢCD, PNL, PAC and others, disbanded in 2000 after the withdrawal of PNL. The remaining parties formed a new alliance named CDR 2000, but failed to win enough votes to enter Parliament in the 2000 election. CDR 2000 eventually disappeared in January 2001.
• Partidul Alianţa Civică (PAC) - Civic Alliance Party.
• Partidul Democrat Agrar din România (PDAR) - Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania.
• Partidul Liber-Schimbist (PLS) - Free Change Party (founded 1990, disbanded 1996)
• Partidul Naţional Liberal - Convenţia Democrată (PNL-CD) - National Liberal Party - Democratic Convention - absorbed into PNL.
• Partidul Social Democrat Român (PSDR) - Romanian Social Democratic Party - absorbed into PDSR to create PSD (2001).
• Partidul Socialist (PS) - Socialist Party.
• Partidul Socialist al Muncii (PSM) - Socialist Party of Labour - one section absorbed into PSD in July 2003, another reconstituted as Partidul Alianţa Socialistă - Socialist Alliance Party
• Partidul Vieţii Româneşti (PVR) - Party of Romanian Life.
• Uniunea Forţelor de Dreapta (UFD) - Union of the Right-wing Forces - founded in 1996(?) as Alternativa României (PAR) - Alternative of Romania, changed name to UFD in 2000, absorbed into PNL in April 2003.

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Communist-era parties

Although distinct parties in the communist era were close to fictional, the following all did have some sort of existence. The Soviets pressed for inclusion of Romanias heretofore negligible Communist Party in the post-war government, while non-communist political leaders were steadily eliminated from political life. ...

• Partidul Muncitoresc Român - Romanian Workers' Party, 1948-1965.
• Partidul Comunist Român - 1965-1989.
• Frontul Democraţiei şi Unitaţii Socialiste - Front for Democratic and Socialist Unity 1975-1989.
• Uniunea Generală a Sindicatelor din România - General Union of Romanian Trade Unions 1948-1989.

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Parties active in Interbellum Romania

The following parties were all active in Romania between in the years between the two World Wars and, in some cases, through World War II. Only the Romanian Communist Party was active after 1947. The list is in alphabetical order by their Romanian names. See also Kingdom of Romania. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... The Romanian Communist Party (Romanian: Partidul Comunist Român) was a Communist political party in Romania until 1989. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... From 1859 to 1877, Romania evolved from a personal union of two principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. ...

Dates of founding and dissolution are given, where known. Failing that, we have attempted to list earliest and latest dates when we can verify that the party was active.

• Blocul Muncitoresc-Ţărănesc - Farmer Labor Bloc (active 1931)
• Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail / Gruparea "Corneliu Codreanu" / Garda de Fier / Totul pentru Ţară - Legion of the Archangel Michael / "Corneliu Codreanu" Grouping / Iron Guard / "All for the Country" or "All for the Fatherland", fascist party, 1927 - c. 1945.
• Liga Agrară - Agrarian League.
• Liga Apărării Naţional-Creştine (LANC) - Christian National Defense League, nationalist, proto-fascist party. 1920 - 1935, merged into National Christian Party.
• Liga Contra Cometei - literally, League Against the Comet (active 1931).
• Liga Poporului - People's (or Populist) League, 1918 - 1921, merged into People's (or Populist) Party.
• Liga "Vlad Tepes" - "Vlad Tepes" League (active early 1930s).
• Frontul Plugarilor- Ploughmen's Front, closely associated with the Communists (active 1946).
• Frontul Renaşterii Naţional, after 1940 Partidul Naţune - National Renaissance Front, after 1940 Party of the Nation, fascist.
• Frontul Român- Romanian Front, right-wing offshoot of National Peasant Party.
• Partidul Comunist din România, after 1944 Partidul Comunist Român (PCR) - Romanian Communist Party, 1922? - 1948. Under other names, this became (1948 - 1989 the ruling party during the Communist era.
• Partidul Conservator - Conservative Party (active 1935).
• Partidul Conservator-Democrat - Conservative Democratic Party (founded 1908, active 1919).
• Partidul Conservator-Progresist - Progressive Conservative Party (active 1918).
• Partidul Naţional - National Party.
• Partidul Naţional-Agrar - National Agrarian Party, ? - 1935 (active 1931, merged into National Christian Party.
• Partidul Naţională Creştină - National Christian Party 1935–1940?, fascist party.
• Partidul Naţionalist-Democrat - Democratic Nationalist Party. Right-wing nationalist party 1910– c. 1940. See also Nicolae Iorga.
• Partidul Naţional-Liberal - National Liberal Party 1865–1938, 1944–1947
• Partidul Naţional-Liberal (P. Bejan) - National Liberal Party (P. Bejan).
• Partidul Naţional-Liberal (Gh. Brătianu) - National Liberal Party (Gheorghe Brătianu)(active 1931–1935).
• Partidul Naţional-Liberal (Gh. Tătărascu) - National Liberal Party (Gheorghe Tătărascu).
• Partidul Naţional-Popular - National Populist Party
• Partidul Naţional-Român - National Romanian Party (active 1919)
• Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc - National Peasant Party, 1926–1938, 1944–1947, a relatively moderate nationalist party.
• Partidul Poporului - Populist Party, 1921–1938? (active 1935).
• Partidul Ţărănesc - Peasant Party (active in 1926, 1932).
• Partidul Ţărănesc dr. N. Lupu - Peasant Party (Dr. N. Lupu) (active in 1931, 1932).
• Partidul Ţărănesc I. Mihalache - Peasant Party (I. Mihalache)
• Partidul Ţărănesc-Democrat (C. Stere) Peasant Democratic Party (C.Stere) (active in 1931).
• Partidul Ţărănesc-Radical Peasant Radical Party.
• Partidul Social Democrat (PSD) - Social Democratic Party, active 1927, 1932.
• Partidul Social Democrat Titel Petrescu - Social Democratic Party (Titel Petrescu).
• Partidul Socialist - Socialist Party (active 1918).
• Uniunea Natională - National Union, a 1932 joint ticket of the National Party and the Democratic Nationalist Party.

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Interbellum Ethnic Minority parties

• Partidul Evreiesc din România - Jewish Party of Romania (active 1931, 1932).
• Partidul German - German Party (active 1931, 1932). Generally aligned with National Peasant Party.
• Partidul Maghiar - Magyar Party (active 1931, 1932).

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Parties before 1918

• Partidul Conservator - Conservative Party, no relation to the modern party of the same name.

The Conservative Party (Partidul Conservator) was between 1880 and 1918 one of Romanias two most important parties. ...

See also

• Liberalism in Romania