PRO Romania (, PRO) is a minor extra-parliamentary

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History

The founding of PRO Romania was initiated in 2017 by former Prime Minister Victor Ponta, former

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/ad interim Prime Minister and Minister of Education Sorin Cîmpeanu, and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Daniel Constantin. The party was formally established on 20 February 2018 in

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, announced on 17 January 2019 that she will candidate in the European Parliament election on behalf of PRO Romania. She will be at the second position in the list after Victor Ponta. Only 4 days later, senator and former Minister of National Defence

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announced that he joined the party, becoming the first senator to join PRO Romania. In 2019, PRO Romania was represented in the

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by 20

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and 1

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and in the

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by 2 MEPs. The party joined the European political party European Democratic Party (EDP) in February 2019. However, its MEPs sit in the

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(PES) and not in the

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group. In 2020, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) merged into PRO Romania, and the expanded party has renamed itself into ''PRO Romania Social-Liberal'' (). Nevertheless, on 26 January 2021, the executive bureau of PRO Romania met to stop the merger procedure between the party and ALDE, thereby formally ceasing the union between the two parties. In October 2022, the party became an observer member of the Party of European Socialists.

Members

Since its establishment, many high-profile former members of PSD or ALDE have joined PRO Romania, including: *

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- member of the

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and former Minister of Health; * Ioana Petrescu - former Minister of Finance; *

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- former Minister of Communications and Information Society; *

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- member of the

and former Minister of Tourism; * Gabriela Podașcă,

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, Mircea Banias, Emilia Meiroșu,

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, Eugen Durbacă,

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, Adrian Pau - members of the

; * Răzvan Cotovelea - former Minister of Communications and Information Society; *

- senator and former Minister of National Defence.

Leadership

Electoral history

Legislative elections

Notes: ¹ The MPs were elected on PSD's and ALDE's lists.

Local elections

Presidential elections

Notes: ¹ Mircea Diaconu was the candidate of the "One Man" ( ro, Un om) alliance; The alliance's members were PRO Romania and ALDE.

European elections

References

External links

Official website
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