Liberal Party (Republic of Moldova)

Partidul Liberal
Party leader	Dorin Chirtoacă
founding	September 05, 1993
Headquarters	Chișinău
Youth organization	Young Liberals
Alignment	Liberalism , conservatism , unionism
Colours)	blue
Parliament seats	0/101
European party	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Website	www.pl.md

The Liberal Party ( Romanian Partidul Liberal , PL) is a center-right party in Moldova . Until April 2005 it was called Partidul Reformei (Reform Party). The chairman is Mihai Ghimpu , who was Moldova's acting president from 2009 to 2010 after the resignation of communist Vladimir Voronin . In the parliamentary elections on April 5, 2009 , the PL was the largest party of the highly fragmented opposition in Moldova. It received 13.1% of the vote and thus 15 parliamentary seats. In the early parliamentary elections in 2010 , however, they fell to 10%, while their potential coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova, won 29.4% of the vote and the strongest party, the Communist Party of Moldova , continued to lose votes. The PL achieved its greatest success so far in the local elections in June 2007. Although it received just under 5% of the votes in all of Moldova, it was able to win the post of mayor in a runoff election in the capital. Mayor of Chișinău became the nephew of party chairman and deputy party chairman Dorin Chirtoacă , who was suspended on May 25, 2017 and dismissed on February 16, 2018 because of a corruption scandal. In the parliamentary elections in Moldova in 2019 , the Liberal Party was eliminated from parliament with just 1.3% of the vote.

Other well-known people associated with the party are Ana Guțu and Vadim Vacarciuc .

Election results

Results in the parliamentary elections

year	be right	proportion of	Mandates	space
1994	41,980	2.4%	0/101	8th.
1998	8,844	0.5%	0/101	13.
2001	10,686	0.7%	0/101 1	14th
2005	-	-	0/101	-
2009 (April)	201,879	13.1%	15/101	2.
2009 (Jul.)	232.108	14.7%	15/101	3.
2010	171,445	10.0%	12/101	4th
2014	154.507	9.7%	13/101	5.
2019	17,743	1.3%	0/101	7th

¹As an electoral alliance “Faith and Justice” with the Partidul Naţional Român .

Web links

• PL website (Romanian)