Party Alliance Our Moldova

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The Party Alliance Our Moldova (Partidul Alianţă Moldova Noastră) is a liberal political party in Moldova. It labels itself as a social liberal party and is lead by Serafim Urechean, former mayor of Chişinău.

At the last legislative elections, on 6 March 2005, the party was part of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova (Blocul Electoral Moldova Democrată), that won 28.4% of the popular vote and 34 out of 101 seats. After the elections the bloc fell apart in three parliamentary groups of the constituent parties, so the Alliance forms now a separate group with 23 deputies.

The Alliance adopted a social-liberal doctrine. Its symbol depicts a sunrise with the phrase "Moldova Noastră" at the bottom. It was established as a party in 2003 as the merger of:

the Social-Democratic Alliance of Moldova or the Braghiş Alliance, successor of the Social-political Movement "Civic Alliance for Reforms" and the Party of Social Democracy "Furnica" (Ant), was a social democratic party established in 1997 and adopted this name in 2001. It was led by Dumitru Braghis and absorbed the Socio-political Movement "Plai Natal" in 2002.

the Liberal Party was a liberal party created as a merger of the Party of Rebirth and Reconciliation of Moldova (1995), National Peasant Christian-Democratic Party (1993) and the Social Liberal Union "Force of Moldova", the latter was being a merger of the National Liberal Party (1993) and the Social-Political Movement "For Order and Justice" (2000). Among its leaders was former president Mircea Snegur. The last party leader was Veaceslav Untila.