National Liberal Party-Câmpeanu

National Liberal Party-Câmpeanu (Romanian: Partidul Național Liberal-Câmpeanu; PNL-C) was a national liberal, conservative liberal, and classical liberal political party in Romania which was established as a split-off from the main National Liberal Party (PNL) during the mid 1990s by former first PNL re-founding president Radu Câmpeanu in the wake of the violent and bloody 1989 Romanian Revolution.[1]

Radu Câmpeanu decided to leave the main PNL from several main reasons, among which, most notably, there were his presidency loss at the congress in 1993 in front of Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (yet the former was elected vice-president of the party at the same congress nevertheless) and his reluctance and opposition towards the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) with respect to the incorporation of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) on common lists for the 1992 general election.

PNL-C, the official abbreviation under which the political party was known, competed in the 1996 and 2000 Romanian general and local elections before being re-integrated in the main PNL through the process of absorption in 2003, one year before the 2004 general election.[2] During both the late 1990s and early 2000s, the party failed to enter the parliament's afferent legislatures for those periods and consequently remained in extra-parliamentary opposition towards both the CDR and PDSR from 1996 until 2003.

History

PNL-C was founded in 1993 as a splinter from the main PNL by Radu Câmpeanu along with a devoted group of national liberal followers dissatisfied with the result of the 1993 PNL presidency congress. Between the mid 1990s and late 1990s, PNL-C refused to be a part of the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) and remained in extra-parliamentary opposition towards both the red quadrilateral coalition headed by FDSN Prime Minister Nicolae Văcăroiu and the subsequent CDR-led coalition successively headed by Victor Ciorbea, Radu Vasile, and Mugur Isărescu.

PNL-C contested the 1996 Romanian general election, the 1996 Romanian local elections, the 2000 Romanian general election, and the 2000 Romanian local elections, failing nevertheless to obtain significant political scores at any of the aforementioned election rounds.

In 1996, Radu Câmpeanu ran once again for president under the National Liberal Ecologist Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Național Liberal Ecologistă; ANLE) but obtained a very feeble 0.35% share of the total ballots cast back then (or, in absolute numbers, 43,319 votes).

Electoral history

Presidential elections
Election Candidate First round Second round
Votes Percentage Position Votes Percentage Position
1996 Radu Câmpeanu43,780
0.35%
 12th –

Legislative elections
Election Chamber Senate Position Aftermath
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
1996 192,495 1.57
0 / 343
 86,359 0.70
0 / 143
  14th 
(within ANLE)1		 Extra-parliamentary opposition to CDR-USD-UDMR government (1996–2000)
2000 151,518 1.40
0 / 345
 133,018 1.22
0 / 140
  9th  Extra-parliamentary opposition to PDSR minority government (2000–2004)

Notes:

1 ANLE stands for Alianța Național Liberal Ecologistă in Romanian which PNL-C established along with the Ecologist Party (PER) at some point before the 1996 Romanian general election

Local elections

At the 1996 Romanian local elections, PNL-C won a very small number of only 15 mayoral mandates all across Romania.[3] Likewise, for the 2000 Romanian local elections, PNL-C obtained modest results.

References
  1. R.M. (19 October 2016). "Radu Campeanu - inchis de comunisti la 25 de ani, emigreaza in Franta la 51, revine la 67 pentru a reface PNL". HotNews (in Romanian). Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  2. Tribunalul București. "30.10.2003 – PARTIDUL NATIONAL LIBERAL CAMPEANU - P.N.L (C)" (PDF). Decizii civile ale Tribunalului București (in Romanian). Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  3. "Alegeri locale, iunie 1996". Archived from the original on 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
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