Ecologist Party of Romania


The Romanian Ecologist Party, 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.

History

The party was founded by Adrian Manolache, an engineer, in January 1990 as a political organisation opposed to the National Salvation Front. 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.
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 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, when followed by Cornel Protopopescu, the latter being subsequently replaced by Dănuț Pop.

Notable members

Legislative elections

Notes:
1 CDR members in 1992: PNȚCD, :ro:Partidul Alianța Civică|PAC, :ro:Partidul Național Liberal-Convenția Democrată|PNL-CD, :ro:Partidul Național Liberal-Aripa Tânără|PNL-AT and PSDR and FER.
2 CDR members in 1996: PNȚCD, PNL, :ro:Partidul Național Liberal-Convenția Democrată|PNL-CD, :ro:Uniunea Forțelor de Dreapta|PAR, Ecologist Federation of Romania.
3 Green Ecologist Party members: Green Party.

Presidential elections

Notes:
1 Emil Constantinescu was the common centre-right candidate that was endorsed by the Ecologist Party of Romania in both 1992 and 1996 as part of the CDR.

European elections

Notes:
1 Electoral protocol endorsing the Social Democratic Party.