Conservative Party (Romania)
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Conservative Party
Partidul Conservator |
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| President | Daniel Constantin |
| Secretary-General | Damian Florea |
| Founder | Dan Voiculescu |
| Founded | 18 December 1991 |
| Dissolved | 19 June 2015 |
| Merged into | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats |
| Headquarters |
Calea Victoriei, 118 Bucharest |
| Membership (2014) | 55,000 |
| Ideology | Conservatism National conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Social Liberal Union (2010–14) |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Light blue |
| Website | |
| www.partidulconservator.ro | |
The Conservative Party (Romanian: Partidul Conservator, PC) was a conservative political party in Romania. Founded in 1991, after the fall of Communism in Romania, originally under the name Romanian Humanist Party (Partidul Umanist Român, PUR). From 2005 until 3 December 2006, the party was a junior member of the Government of Romania. The party adopted the name Conservative Party on 7 May 2005. In June 2015 it merged with the Liberal Reformist Party to form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats.
The Conservative Party stated that it promoted tradition, family, social solidarity, European integration, and a nationalism without chauvinism. It claimed the heritage of the historical Romanian Conservative Party, one of the two main political forces in Romania before the First World War. There was no direct, uninterrupted link between the two parties — the historical Conservative Party was dissolved after World War I — but the modern party sustained and embraced the values of the historical one.
The Conservative Party was founded as the Romanian Humanist Party (PUR) on 18 December 1991 and was for a time a member of the Humanist International. It changed its name in 2005 to reflect a shift in its ideology from centrist politics to more conservative, right-wing politics. The party was founded by Dan Voiculescu, a businessman who formally gave control of his companies to relatives. Voiculescu was the founder and former owner of an important media chain comprising among others the top-ranking TV channel Antena 1 and the newspapers Jurnalul Naţional and Gazeta Sporturilor. According to CNA (the state agency for broadcast licensing), he retains significant influence in the Romanian mass media, either through his foundation or through his family.
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