Partidul România Mare
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| Party leader | Gheorghe Funar |
| Political spectrum | Nationalism , irredentism , right-wing extremism , right-wing populism , national conservatism , EU skepticism |
| founding | June 1991 |
| Headquarters | Bucharest |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies | 0 of 334 |
The Partidul România Mare ( PRM , German about Greater Romania Party ) is a political party in Romania .
history
The Partidul România Mare was founded in June 1991. Corneliu Vadim Tudor was the dominant personality (and for a large part also the chairman) from the start .
In the 1990s, the party initially experienced a continuous upswing. In 1994/95 she was even involved in the government of the social democrat Nicolae Văcăroiu .
In 2000 the Partidul România Mare became the second largest party in the Romanian parliament. At the same time, Corneliu Vadim Tudor achieved 28.3 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential election and thus second place, but was clearly defeated in the runoff election by the ex-communist social democrat Ion Iliescu with 33.2 to 66.8 percent.
Since then, voter support for the party has waned.
For a few months in 2005 the party was called Partidul Popular România Mare ( PPRM , for example Greater Romania People's Party ), but was then given its old name again.
After Romania's accession to the European Union in January 2007, the Partidul România Mare sent five members to the European Parliament . There they founded the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty parliamentary group together with right-wing extremists from other countries . However, this dissolved again in November 2007 when the Romanian MPs left the parliamentary group because of tensions with their Italian colleagues.
In November 2008, the PRM lost massive votes in the parliamentary elections and failed to get back into parliament. After the Romanian by-elections to the European Parliament on November 25, 2007, the party also left Europe-wide representation. In the new elections on June 7, 2009 , however, she managed to return to the European Parliament with 8.7% of the vote.
Election results
| year | choice | Result |
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| 1992 | houses of Parliament | 3.9% |
| 1996 | houses of Parliament | 4.5% |
| 2000 | houses of Parliament | 19.5% |
| 2004 | houses of Parliament | 12.9% |
| 2007 | European Parliament | 4.2% |
| 2008 | houses of Parliament | 3.2% |
| 2009 | European Parliament | 8.7% |
Political orientation
The party can be classified as nationalist in the political spectrum of Romania. While she is viewed as right-wing extremist in Western Europe, she is classified as left-wing extremist in Romania. The reason is the continuity of the ideologies of communism and nationalism adopted from the Ceaușescu era. This mixture of ideologies is overlaid by religious ideas.
According to the party name, the main goal is the restoration of Romania's borders in the period between the two world wars (" Greater Romania "), that is, including Bessarabia , northern Bukovina and southern Dobruja .
Declared political role models for the party and its chairman are the dictators Ion Antonescu and Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Certain minorities are regularly declared enemies and made responsible for grievances in Romania's political and social life. These opponents include Roma , Hungarians and homosexuals.
For a long time Jews were also regularly the target of verbal attacks by the party. In this context, leading party representatives also denied the Holocaust or at least Romanian participation in it. At the beginning of 2004, Tudor publicly announced its change from anti-Semite to philosemite and hired an Israeli image advisor to lead the election.
literature
- Daniela Oancea: Myths and the Past. Romania after the reunification. Dissertation . Uni Munich , 2005, online (PDF; 213 pages).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ dokmz.wordpress.com November 14, 2007 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Daniela Oancea: Myths and Past. Romania after the reunification. Dissertation. Munich, 2005, p. 10
- ↑ Almanahul România Mare, 1996
- ↑ Daniela Oancea: Myths and Past. Romania after the reunification. Dissertation. Munich, 2005, p. 48
- ↑ Daniela Oancea: Myths and Past. Romania after the reunification. Dissertation. Munich, 2005, p. 114
