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Romanian Ecologist Party Partidul Ecologist Român | |
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| President | Florin Secară |
| 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 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 |
TheRomanian Ecologist Party (Romanian:Partidul Ecologist Român,PER) is anecologist and currently mostlyconservative andgreen conservativepolitical party inRomania, member of theAER Alliance for Romania (Alianța AER pentru România). Without parliamentary representation, it is one of themicroparties 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 inRâmnicu Vâlcea andVâlcea County, where it is ranked third behind theNational Liberal Party (PNL) and theSocial Democratic Party (PSD), Romania's two largest parties. Previously, it collaborated with theGreen Party (PV) in the 2008 legislative elections.
The party was founded byAdrian Manolache [ro], an engineer, in January 1990 as a political organisation opposed to theNational Salvation Front (FSN).[9] Adrian Manolache launched the program and the platform of the PER on 5 January 1990 in the newspaperLibertatea, being one of the newly founded parties in Romania and the second post-1989 registered one after theChristian 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 withRadu Câmpeanu'sNational 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 theRomanian 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]
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| Election | Chamber | Senate | Position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
| 1990 | 232,212 | 1.69 | 8 / 395 | 192,574 | 1.38 | 1 / 119 | 8th |
| 1992 | Part ofCDR | 4 / 341 | Part ofCDR | 0 / 143 | – | ||
| 1996 | Part ofCDR | 5 / 343 | Part ofCDR | 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 ofPVE | 0 / 334 | Part ofPVE | 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 |
| 2024 | 38,561 | 0.42 | 0 / 330 | 34,641 | 0.37 | 0 / 136 | 9th |
| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Position | Votes | % | Position | ||
| 1990 | did not compete | ||||||
| 1992 | EndorsedEmil Constantinescu of theRomanian Democratic Convention | ||||||
| 1996 | EndorsedEmil Constantinescu of theRomanian 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 | ||||||
| 2024 | Endorsedindependent candidateCristian Diaconescu[12] | ||||||
| 2025 | Endorsedindependent candidateVictor Ponta[13] | ||||||
| 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 theSocial Democratic Party) | |||||
