Conservative Party (Romania)
Partidul Conservator (PC, German Conservative Party ) is a political party in Romania.
History
The formation was created in December 1991 under the name Partidul Umanist Român ( PUR, about Romanian Humanist Party ). Dominant personality is Dan Voiculescu.
Dan Voiculescu and his family own several mass media in Romania. He was shown the employees for the former communist secret police Securitate. Voiculescu asserts to have harmed his intelligence activity anyone.
In political life, the party plays a minor role in the rule. Because of Romania's suffrage, she is forced to conclude electoral alliances with larger parties to send some deputies in the national parliament can.
After the 2000 elections, the PUR entered into one of the Social Democrats ( PSD) led government, but moved in 2002 back again. At the elections in late 2004 Partidul Umanist Român entered in a list associated with the Social Democrats. Your so elected to the House of Representatives Representatives allowed but then the choice of the bourgeois Prime Minister Calin Popescu - Tăriceanu of the PNL and participated in his government.
In May 2005, the party gave its present name. Thus, the reorientation should take into account. Until then, the party represented predominantly left-liberal, conservative positions since then. During arguments in the government's PC came in December 2006 from the government Popescu- Tăriceanu and was since then in opposition.
End of August 2008 closed the PC again an electoral alliance with the PSD for the parliamentary elections in November 2008, which enabled the PC to let stand 25 candidates on the lists of the PSD. Currently (February 2010), the PC three MPs in the House of Representatives and a Senate.
Since February 2010, Daniel Constantin is party chairman.
Political orientation
The Party shall at its own representation for traditional values ( family, social solidarity ) and European Integration in. Economically it looks primarily at the side of the small and medium entrepreneurs. It encourages religious values and calls such as a compulsory religious education in Romanian schools.