Force of the Right ( ro, Forța Dreptei, FD), sometimes translated as Right's Force or Right Force, is a

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political party in Romania founded in December 2021 by

Ludovic Orban Ludovic Orban (; born 25 May 1963) is a Romanian engineer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Romania from November 2019 to December 2020. He was president of the National Liberal Party (Romania), National Liberal Party (PNL) betw ...

, former National Liberal Party (PNL) president and former

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between 2019 and 2020, in opposition to the current leadership of the PNL which is currently officially led by

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and unofficially by

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History

On 3 October 2021, former

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n PM Ludovic Orban, who had been previously defeated for the leadership of the National Liberal Party (PNL) by

Florin Cîțu Florin Vasile Cîțu (; born 1 April 1972) is a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania between December 2020 and November 2021 (acting (law), acting/ad interim between October and November 2021). Between September 2021 and A ...

at the PNL congress held in September 2021 at

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, stated that he is willing "to create a new political construction which would be ready to continue PNL's legacy". In this regard, Orban was walking in the steps of another former PNL Prime Minister, more specifically

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu (; born 14 January 1952) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 December 2004 to 22 December 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-pre ...

, who left the PNL earlier in 2015 (also in opposition to Iohannis) in order to establish the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE). Furthermore, commentators claimed Orban's faction was going to party ways with the PNL should he not be designated PM after

's dismissal by the Parliament, which also happened in the meantime along with the nominations of former PM

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(USR) and

of PNL proper (the latter serving as acting PM between Orban's and Cîțu's premierships/terms). By 2 November 2021, Orban together with 14 other parliamentarians left the PNL parliamentary group. In response, the current leadership of the PNL announced its intention to exclude from the party everyone taking this move, emphasizing that "the door of PNL is closed to those who make fun of PNL". On 12 November 2021, the current leadership of the PNL expelled Orban at the proposal of

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, a supporter of

. By 23 November 2021, the pro-Orban parliamentarians who left the PNL parliamentary group left the party itself as well, being followed in this move by the entirety of the

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(the PNL's

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)'s Sector 3 branch on 27 November 2021. Orban said that he rejects all

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- progressive currents, and that the new party will be

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. Originally, the party was going to be named the Liberal Force ( ro, Forța Liberală, FL). On 14 December 2021, Orban submitted the documents necessary in order to establish the new party, which was then going to be named after the name of his motion used to run for a second term as PNL president at the September 2021 PNL congress, more specifically the Right's Force/Force of the Right, that will be "valid until the

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congress of the party". Orban said the Force of the Right is a

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party, which is not

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, and which wants to join the

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(EPP). In February 2022, the parliamentary group of right-wing deputies was established to represent FD in the

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, with

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as its leader.Apariție nouă în Parlamentul României. Partidul care își înființează grup la Camera Deputaților
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Leadership

Electoral history

Legislative elections

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