Ecological Movement of Romania
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The Ecological Movement of Romania (Romanian: Mișcarea Ecologistă din România, MER) was a political party in Romania.
History
[edit | edit source]Following the overthrow of the Communist regime in Romania, the MER was formed as a front for the post-Ceaușescu regime in an effort to attract the support of environmentalists.[1] It received 2.6% of the Chamber of Deputies vote in the 1990 general elections, winning 12 seats. It also received 2.6% of the Senate vote, winning one seat.[2] In December 1990 the party joined the National Convention for the Establishment of Reform and Democracy (CDR), a coalition opposing the National Salvation Front (FSN) government.[1] The collapse of the coalition in January 1992 led to the party failing to win a seat in the 1992 general elections;[1] although its vote share was reduced only marginally to 2.3% it lost all its seats.[3]
It contested the 1996 elections as part of the National Union of the Centre alliance, alongside the Romanian Democratic Agrarian Party (PDAR) and the Humanist Party (PUR). However, the alliance received only 0.9% of the vote, failing to win a seat.[4]
Călin Georgescu, who would later become one of the most prominent figures of the Romanian far-right, was the leader of the party's youth wing, the Ecologist Youth of Romania (TER), from 1990 to 1992. In 1992, TER split off from the party and became an NGO, while Georgescu remained its leader until 1996.[5]
Election results
[edit | edit source]Parliamentary elections
[edit | edit source]| Election | Chamber | Senate | Position | Aftermath | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 1990 | 358,864 | 2.62 | 12 / 395
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341,478 | 2.50 | 1 / 119
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5th | Opposition to FSN government (1990–1991) |
| FSN–PNL–MER–PDAR government (1991–1992) | ||||||||
| 1992 | 243,740 | 2.25 | 0 / 341
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231,401 | 2.11 | 0 / 143
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10th | Extraparliamentary |
| 1996 | Part of the National Union of the Centre |
0 / 341
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Part of the National Union of the Centre |
0 / 143
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16th | Extraparliamentary | ||
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c John Barry & E. Gene Frankland (2002) International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, Taylor & Francis, p139
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1599–1600 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ 1992 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
- ^ 1996 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
