42-424: The PPCD acronym may mean: Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania) Christian-Democratic People's Party (Moldova) Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PPCD . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
84-612: A Communist who was purged together with Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu , later told him that prominent party politician Ana Pauker had unsuccessfully opposed the move in front of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej . In 1956, Coposu was sentenced to life imprisonment for "betrayal of the working class " and "crime against social reforms". In April 1964, he was freed after 15 years of detention and 2 years of forced residence in Rubla ( Brăila County ), having spent, in all, 17 years of incarceration in 17 notorious detention and hard labor facilities associated with
126-561: A ceremony in Bucharest. Regarding Emil Constantinescu 's election as the CDR's candidate for the presidential office in 1992, Coposu stated: "The candidate was elected in an absolutely democratic manner. The appointment of the candidate of the Democratic Convention for the position of president of the country was made according to the most authentic democratic rules. All five candidates had
168-561: A common Right Romania Alliance (ARD), along with the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), and the Civic Force (FC). The party won one senator seat and one deputy seat. On 23 April 2013, Pavelescu was elected president of the party. At the 2014 European Parliament election , the party gained only 0.89% of the cast votes, with candidates like former EP member Sebastian Bodu and the current party president, Aurelian Pavelescu, opening
210-709: A decision enforced by the then official fraction of the PNȚCD led by Marian Petre Miluț . Elena Udrea was endorsed by the People's Movement Party (PMP)-PNȚCD alliance at the 2014 Romanian presidential election . Electoral protocol endorsing Viorica Dăncilă , the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Notes : Electoral protocol endorsing the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Corneliu Coposu Corneliu (Cornel) Coposu ( Romanian: [korˈnelju koˈposu] ) (20 May 1914 – 11 November 1995)
252-572: A grand coalition which included the Democratic Party (PD) and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ). At the 2000 elections , PNȚCD ran on a common CDR 2000 list and scored 5.30% (or 575,706 votes), being unable to pass the electoral threshold required for an alliance. This weak electoral result was primarily owed to the fragmentation of the alliance and the scission of
294-555: A result, in 1991, most notably alongside the National Liberal Party (PNL; but also with other noteworthy civic organisations, foundations, and minor additional right-leaning political parties), the PNȚCD formed the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR). Eventually, the PNȚCD would affirm itself as the most dominant internal political force for much of the convention's existence. For the period 1990–1992, PNȚCD
336-541: Is anti-communist and advocates for de-Sovietization within Romania. It endorses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in conjunction with the Romanian constitution and seeks to protect the cultural and traditional rights of all Romanian people. It also advocates for equal opportunities for all Romanians, uphold rule of law, defends the right to private property ownership, and calls for economic reform to stimulate
378-638: Is a agrarian and Christian democratic 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 . PNȚCD was the largest and most important political party of
420-506: The 1990 elections , where it ranked 4th with 2.5% (or 348,637 votes) and endorsed Ion Rațiu for president. The PNȚCD presidential candidate ranked 3rd, with 4.3% (or 617,007 votes). Given the political dominance of the National Salvation Front (FSN) that was exerted prior and after the first free elections in post-1989 Romania, the PNȚCD decided to form a consistent alliance of centre-right parties aiming mainly to oppose it. As
462-444: The 2020 Romanian local elections , where it won 1 mayor and 42 local councillors. Its motto as of 2006 was Fiecare contează ( Each one counts ). At the 2014 EU elections , PNȚCD's motto was Renaștem pentru România ta! ( Reborn for your Romania! ). The PNȚCD is an agrarian , Christian democratic , and Christian humanist political party that stands for "social justice, Christian morality and enlightened patriotism." The party
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#1732904801068504-551: The Bărăgan ". In the 1990s, during debates over the overall number of victims of the Communist regime between 1947 and 1964, Coposu spoke of 282,000 arrests and 190,000 deaths in custody. After his release, Coposu started work as an unskilled worker on various construction sites (given his status as a former prisoner, he was denied employment in any other field), and was subject to Securitate surveillance and regular interrogation. After
546-711: 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
588-564: 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
630-1300: The Romanian economy . Internationally, the party is a member of Centrist Democrat International (CDI) along with other Christian democratic and conservative movements and was affiliated with the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament before joining the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group. Notes : CDR members in 1992: PNȚCD, PAC (7 senators and 13 deputies), PNL-AT (1 senator and 11 deputies), PSDR (1 senator and 10 deputies), PNL-CD (4 senators and 3 deputies), and PER (no senators and 4 deputies). CDR members in 1996: PNȚCD, PNL (22 senators and 28 deputies), PNL-CD (1 senator and 4 deputies), PAR (3 senators and 3 deputies), PER (1 senator and 5 deputies), and Ecologist Federation of Romania (FER – 1 senator and 1 deputy). CDR 2000 members: PNȚCD, UFD , Ecologist Federation of Romania (FER), National Christian Democratic Alliance (ANCD), and The Moldavians' Party (PM). PNȚCD competed on PNL lists. Right Romania Alliance (ARD) members: PDL (22 senators and 52 deputies), FC (1 senators and 3 deputies), and PNȚCD. Notes : Emil Constantinescu
672-535: The Second Vienna Award of August 1940, when Romania was forced to cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary , Coposu moved to Bucharest . He became the political secretary of Maniu, the leader of the clandestine opposition to Marshal Ion Antonescu , and the leader of the anti-Nazi resistance in Romania. Maniu was contacted by representatives of the British authorities, and Coposu was one of his trusted assistants;
714-617: The Antonescu regime, Coposu became deputy secretary of the PNȚ and, after the reintegration of Northern Transylvania, the party's delegate to the leadership of provisional administrative bodies. He was also active in organizing the party as the main opposition to the Communist Party and the Petru Groza cabinet before the 1946 general election . The communist regime established and controlled by
756-721: The PNR and PNŢ, who had been a leading actor factor in Transylvania 's union with Romania (1918), and as head of the Transylvania Directory Council. Coposu wrote in detail about this experience in his "secret diary", discovered after the collapse of communism and published in 2014. Accused of propaganda against the National Rebirth Front (Frontul Renașterii Naționale), Coposu was sent into forced domicile in Bobota. After
798-516: The Romanian right into several other parties as well as to the tumultuous previous governing term. For the period 2000–2004, PNȚCD was in extra-parliamentary opposition. At the 2004 elections , PNȚCD ran independently, having obtained 1.9% (or 196,027 votes), failing this time as well to surpass the needed electoral threshold. The party endorsed the presidential candidacy of Gheorghe Ciuhandu , former mayor of Timișoara . Ciuhandu eventually ranked 5th in
840-511: The Soviets , arrested him on 14 July 1947, together with all the leadership of the National Peasants' Party, after some of the party leadership had allegedly tried to flee the country in a plane landed at Tămădău ( see Tămădău Affair ). His mentor, Iuliu Maniu, the leader NPP, the most important political organization in Romania, received a life sentence in a show trial. Maniu died in 1953, in
882-472: The collapse of communism, Tudor Călin Zarojanu published large excerpts from the huge Securitate file on Corneliu Coposu, kept for decades by the secret communist political police His wife Arlette was also prosecuted in 1950 during a rigged espionage trial, and died in 1966, soon after her release, from an illness contracted in prison. Coposu managed to keep contact with PNȚ sympathisers, and re-established
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#1732904801068924-664: The communist regime, including Sighet Prison , Gherla Prison , Jilava Prison , Râmnicu Sărat Prison , Pitești Prison , and the Danube–Black Sea Canal (where he was imprisoned with his friend and collaborator Șerban Ghica ). Coposu later testified having been impressed by the deep scars collectivization had left in the country, as well as by the resilience of the Rubla deportees ( see Bărăgan deportations ) — "They traded in vegetables they had grown themselves while locals could not be convinced that these could actually grow on
966-504: The conflict. In an attempt to create a resemblance between how the dictator Ceaușescu exited the armored vehicle before his trial and Coposu's flight, under the pretext of protecting Coposu from the angry crowd, Roman commissioned an armored vehicle to drive him to the headquarters of the Romanian National Television, where Roman promised Coposu that he could make a statement which would be aired later that day. The statement
1008-468: The daughter of Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Iuliu Anceanu). Corneliu had four sisters: Cornelia (1911–1988), Doina (1922–1990), Flavia Bălescu (b. 1924), and Rodica (b. 1932). He too was a devout member of the church and joined the Romanian National Party (PNR), a group dominated by Greek-Catholic politicians – Gheorghe Pop de Băsești was an acquaintance of the Coposu family, and Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
1050-522: The first round, with 1.9% (or 198,394 votes). In March 2005, PNȚCD voted to change its name to the Christian Democratic People's Party ( Romanian : Partidul Popular Creștin-Democrat , PPCD ) after the unification with the Union for Romanian Reconstruction. Eventually, it returned to its original name (PNȚCD). The party did not compete in the 2008 legislative elections . Afterwards, the party
1092-650: The founder of the National Peasant Party (PNȚ), the most important political organization from the interwar period. He studied law and worked as a journalist. Corneliu Coposu was born in Bobota , Sălaj County , at that time in Austria-Hungary (now in Romania ), to the Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu (17 November 1886 – 28 July 1941) and his wife Aurelia Coposu ( née Anceanu, herself
1134-509: The group maintained contacts between the Romanian politicians who were negotiating the country's exit from the alliance with the Axis Powers , in order to join the Allies (USA, UK, USSR) (an alternative kept by the Antonescu government). In his "secret diary", Coposu explained the role of Iuliu Maniu as the main organizer of the coup d'état against Antonescu. In 1945, after the royal coup against
1176-524: The infamous Sighet Prison , but his death certificate was released only eight years later. Coposu was imprisoned without trial for nine years, as all charges brought against him were dismissed due to lack of evidence. Coposu later attested that his imprisonment, imposed by Soviet officials overseeing the Securitate , was among those causing a stir in the higher echelons of the Communist Party. Belu Zilber ,
1218-599: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PPCD&oldid=933063185 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Christian-Democratic National Peasants%27 Party (Romania) The Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party ( Romanian : Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat , officially abbreviated PNȚCD )
1260-434: The list. Following the 2019 European Parliament election and thanks to an agreement between the party and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the party has 1 MEP , more specifically Cristian Terheș . For the 2019 Romanian presidential election , the party did not compete but endorsed PSD candidate Viorica Dăncilă. Furthermore, the party did not compete for the 2020 Romanian legislative election but it did compete for
1302-436: The moral stature and prestige to honor the highest magistracy of the country. We, the Democratic Convention, wish the only candidate, elected by the vote of the 67 major presidential electors, to succeed in the elections and to achieve his first goal, which is the eradication of communism in Romania." He died in Bucharest while undergoing treatment for lung cancer . Some 100,000 people attended his funeral three days later. He
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1344-558: The party as a clandestine group during the 1980s, while imposing its affiliation to Christian Democracy and the Christian Democrat International . On 22 December 1989, (during the Romanian Revolution ), he and prominent members of the party issued a manifesto that confirmed the PNȚ's entry into legality, under the name Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD). For the rest of his life, Coposu
1386-478: The party. In September 2011, the Bucharest Courthouse (responsible for the parties registry) recognised Victor Ciorbea as party president. Nonetheless, the split continued until Ciorbea left the party (until October 2012 namely) in order to become a senator on PNL's lists. Pavelescu was subsequently recognised as president and the fractions were dissolved. For the 2012 legislative elections , PNȚCD ran on
1428-455: The period 1992–1996, the party was the main opposition force in the Parliament of Romania . At the 1996 elections , CDR managed to rank 1st, with 30.70% (or 3,772,084 votes), and once again endorsed Emil Constantinescu, who also managed to win the presidency with 54.41% (or 7,057,906 votes). For the period 1996–2000, PNȚCD was the most important governing party within the CDR, being also part of
1470-465: 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 . The Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party was (re)-founded by Corneliu Coposu , Ioan Alexandru , and Ion Rațiu in December 1989, being thus the first officially registered political party after the fall of communism . The party competed in
1512-491: Was a Christian Democratic and liberal conservative Romanian politician, the founder of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party ( Romanian : Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat ), the founder of the Romanian Democratic Convention ( Romanian : Convenția Democratică ), and a political detainee during the communist regime . His political mentor was Iuliu Maniu (1873–1953),
1554-522: Was a relative on Corneliu Coposu's mother's side. After studying Law and Economy at the University of Cluj (1930–1934), he engaged in local politics with the PNR's direct successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNȚ), and worked as a journalist; he wrote for România Nouă , edited by Zaharia Boilă, Mesajul ( Zalău ), Unirea ( Blaj ). He became the private secretary of Iuliu Maniu , the leader of
1596-470: Was one of the main opposition parties. At the 1992 elections , the party ran on a common CDR list (along with other allied parties within the convention) and endorsed the candidacy of Emil Constantinescu as President of Romania . Consequently, the CDR ranked 2nd, having scored 20.16% (or 2,210,722 votes), while Emil Constantinescu managed to qualify in the second round of the presidential election where he finished second with 38.57% (or 4,641,207 votes). For
1638-517: Was recorded but it did not air. No copy of the recording was ever found in the archives. Coposu successfully grouped various organizations into the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR), of which he was the leader between 1991 and 1993. He was elected to the Senate of Romania in the 1992 general election . In 1995, the government of France granted him the Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur during
1680-480: Was split between a wing sustained by Marian Petre Miluț endorsing Aurelian Pavelescu as president (who decided on an alliance with the then governing Democratic Liberal Party , PDL) and one endorsing former Prime Minister and Bucharest mayor Victor Ciorbea as president (who, at that time, favoured an alliance with the National Liberal Party). Victor Ciorbea was elected on 18 June 2011 president of
1722-473: Was the common centre-right candidate who was endorsed by the PNȚCD in both 1992 and 1996 as part of the larger Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR). Mugur Isărescu was endorsed by the PNȚCD at the 2000 elections as part of the Romanian Democratic Convention 2000 (CDR 2000) alliance. Electoral protocol endorsing Traian Băsescu , the candidate of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), due to
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1764-606: Was the main voice of the opposition to the National Salvation Front (from 1992, the Democratic National Salvation Front ). Present at his party's headquarters, he was targeted by during the January 1990 Mineriad (the first of the Mineriads ) on 28 January 1990. The Prime Minister Petre Roman addressed the angry mob who wanted to lynch Coposu and the other leaders of the democratic opposition, pretending to mediate
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