Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania)

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Partidul Naţional Ţăranesc - Creştin Democrat
Leader	Marian Petre Miluţ
Senate Leader	N/A
Chamber Leader	N/A
Founded	December 1989
Headquarters	Bd. Carol I, nr. 24 Bucharest
Political Ideology	Christian Democracy
International Affiliation
European Affiliation	European People's Party
European Parliament Group	EPP
Colours	Yellow and Blue
Website	www.pntcd.ro
See also	Politics of Romania Political parties 2004 elections

The National Peasant Christian-Democratic Party (Partidul Naţional Ţăranesc - Creştin Democrat, PNŢ-CD) is a Romanian Christian-Democratic party.

It is the successor of the National Peasants' Party (which, in turn, was the successor of the Romanian National Party) from Transylvania.

Its current president is Marian Petre Miluţ. Its motto as of 2006 is Fiecare contează ([[Everyone counts]]).

The National Peasants' Party (Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc or PNŢ) was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926[1] through the fusion of the Romanian National Party (Partidul Naţional Român) from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party (Partidul Ţărănesc). It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions. A moderately conservative party, with some left-wing corporatist views (supporting, for instance, voluntary cooperative farming), it has remained staunchly pro-monarchy[2].

Its former leader, Corneliu Coposu, claimed that 270,000[3] PNŢ members were sent to the Communist prisons and work camps, where three quarters of them perished, beginning in 1947 when the party was banned by the Communist government following the Tămădău Affair. Both the party president Iuliu Maniu and the deputy leader Ion Mihalache died in the Communist prisons.

The party was resurrected by Corneliu Coposu and Ion Raţiu in December 1989 under the name Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin şi Democrat (PNŢCD or PNŢcd, Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party). It was the first officially registered political party after the fall of Communism.

In March 2005, PNŢCD voted to change its name to Christian-Democratic People's Party (Partidul Popular Creştin-Democrat, PPCD) after the unification with URR.

Nowadays, this party return to its traditional name Partidul Naţional Ţărănesc Creştin şi Democrat PNTCD.

Member of the The European People's Party (EPP) which is the largest European political party.

Famous members:

Iuliu Maniu

Ioan Ratiu

Ion Mihalache

Virgil Madgearu

Alexandru Vaida Voevod

Corneliu Coposu

Dimitrie Gusti

Iuliu Hatieganu

Gheorghe Ciuhandu

Gabriel Tepelea

Ion Diaconescu

Vasile Lupu

Doina Cornea

Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu

Andrei Marga

Radu Vasile

Victor Ciorbea

Emil Constantinescu

Serban Radulescu

Ioan Avram Muresan

Ion Caramitru

Radu Sarbu

Marian Petre Milut

[edit] External links

• Official site

Political parties of Romania
Represented in the Chamber of Deputies (329)	Social Democratic Party (107) | National Liberal Party (51) | Democratic Party (50) | Greater Romania Party (30) | Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (22) | Conservative Party (19) | Ethnic minorities parties (18; 1 each) | Independents (32)
Represented in the Senate (137)	Social Democratic Party (43) | National Liberal Party (22) | Democratic Party (21) | Greater Romania Party (17) | Conservative Party (12) | Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (10) | Independents (12)
Represented in the European Parliament (35)	National Liberal Party (7) | Democratic Party (5) | Social Democratic Party (12) | Greater Romania Party (5) | Conservative Party (2) | Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (3) | Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (1)
Not represented in Parliament*	New Generation Party (2.30%) | Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (1.89%) | Ecologist Party of Romania (0.77%) | People's Action (0.49%) | Socialist Alliance Party (0.32%) *average 2004 result for the two chambers given in parentheses