Democratic Party (Romania)

Democratic Party Partidul Democrat
President	Petre Roman (1993–2000) Traian Băsescu (2000–2004) Emil Boc (2004–2007)
Founded	1993
Dissolved	15 December 2007
Preceded by	National Salvation Front
Merged into	Democratic Liberal Party
European affiliation	European People's Party (2006–2007)
International affiliation	Socialist International (1996–2005)
Coalition	Justice and Truth Alliance (2004–2007)
Politics of Romania Political parties Elections

The Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat, PD) was a social-democratic and, later, a centre-right political party in Romania. In January 2008, it merged with the Liberal Democratic Party, a splinter group of the National Liberal Party, to form the Democratic Liberal Party.

From 1996 to 2005 the party was a member of the Socialist International. From 2004 to 2007 the PD was the junior member of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance, although according to many Romanian opinion polls it remained the most popular of the two parties. Although he had to formally suspend his leadership of the party when elected president in 2004, the PD was largely associated with Romanian president Traian Băsescu.

Conflict broke out between FSN leaders Ion Iliescu and Petre Roman in early 1992, and this led to the separation of the Iliescu wing under the name of Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN), which later became the Social Democratic Party (PSD).

FSN was defeated by the FDSN in the 1992 legislative election and spent the next four years in opposition. In 1993 the FSN changed its name to the Democratic Party (PD). In the 1996 legislative election, the PD ran jointly with the now-defunct Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), under the Social Democratic Union (USD) banner. After having ranked third, they joined a governing coalition with the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) and the ethnic Hungarian party Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR). From 2000 to 2004 PD has been again in opposition.

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