Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party
The Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romanian: Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat, officially abbreviated PNȚCD) is a Christian democratic and agrarian political party in Romania. It claims to be the rightful successor of the interwar National Peasants' Party (PNȚ), created from the merger of the Romanian National Party (PNR) from the then Austro-Hungarian-ruled Transylvania and the Peasants' Party (PȚ) from the Romanian Old Kingdom.
Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat | |
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| Leader | Aurelian Pavelescu |
| Founded | December 1989 |
| Preceded by | National Peasants' Party |
| Headquarters | Bd. Carol I, nr. 24, sector 2, Bucharest |
| Ideology | Agrarianism Christian democracy National conservatism Monarchism Sovereigntism Euroscepticism Romanian nationalism |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
| European affiliation | ECPM (2020–present) EPP (1987–2017) |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International (CDI) |
| European Parliament group | ECR group (2020–present) |
| Colours | Green and blue |
| Senate | 0 / 136 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 330 |
| European Parliament (Romanian seats) | 1 / 33 |
| Mayors | 1 / 3,176 |
| County Councilors | 0 / 1,340 |
| Local Councilors | 42 / 39,900 |
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PNȚCD was the largest and most important political party of the Romanian Democratic Convention (Romanian: Convenția Democrată Română, CDR) during the 1990s and was led by Corneliu Coposu and Ion Diaconescu, two former political prisoners during communism, but as the 2000s began it gradually feel out of grace amongst centre-right Romanian voters and slowly became an inactive microparty. The party was subsequently excluded from the European People's Party (EPP) in June 2017. Eventually, it joined the European Christian Political Movement (ECPM) in February 2020.
Given a tremendous disdain and resentment towards Pavelescu's leadership (the incumbent party president since 2011 onwards), another Christian peasant group known as the National Peasant Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Național Țărăniștă - Țărăniștii, ANȚ) seceded from the main PNȚCD in 2019 (which, according to them and their electoral basin, greatly drifted from its original ideology) and centered around leader Radu Ghidău (one of the youngest PNȚCD MPs during the legislature of the late 1990s, more specifically the one spanning over 1996–2000) for the 2020 Romanian local elections.