Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Romania)

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Alianța Liberalilor și Democraților

Co-Presidents	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Daniel Constantin
Executive Presidents	Daniel Barbu Vasile Nistor
First Vice President	Steluţa Cătăniciu
Founded	19 June 2015
Merger of	PLR and PC
Ideology	Liberalism (Romanian)
Political position	Centre-right
European affiliation	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
International affiliation	Liberal International (observer)
Seats in the Senate	12 / 176
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies	26 / 412
Seats in the European Parliament	0 / 32
Mayors	64 / 3,186 ^[1]
County Councilors	80 / 1,434 ^[1]
Local County Councilors	2,504 / 40,067 ^[1]
Website
alde.ro
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The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Romanian: Alianța Liberalilor și Democraților, ALDE) is a political party in Romania.

History

The party was founded on 19 June 2015 from a merger of the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR) and Conservative Party (PC).^[2]^[3] On 19 November 2015 the party was admitted into the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.^[4]

Political parties in Romania

Represented in the Chamber of Deputies (387)	Social Democratic Party (191) National Liberal Party (106) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (24) Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (17) People's Movement Party (13) Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (1) Green Party (1) United Romania Party (1) Ethnic minorities parties (18; 1 each) Unaffiliated (6)

Represented in the Senate (168)	Social Democratic Party (71) National Liberal Party (56) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (9) Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (8) People's Movement Party (1) Romanian Social Party (1) Unaffiliated (20)

Represented in the European Parliament (32)	Social Democratic Party (S&D, 14) National Liberal Party (EPP, 8) Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (EPP, 2) People's Movement Party (EPP, 1) Party of Humanist Power (S&D, 1) M10 (ECR, 1) Independent (ALDE, 3 EPP, 1 ENF, 1)

Not represented in Parliament*	Greater Romania Party (1.47%) Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (0.79%) Romanian Ecologist Party (0.79%) Socialist Party (0.03%) New Republic New Generation Party – Christian Democratic Save Bucharest Union

Portal:Politics List of political parties Politics of Romania *average 2012 result for the two chambers given in parentheses

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