Communist Party (''Nepeceriști'') ( ro, Partidul Comuniștilor (Nepecerişti), PCN) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

, officially registered 31 July 2006.Registrul partidelor politice
, Legea Nr. 14/2003. Tribunalul București. Accessed 7 October 2006. The term ''Nepeceriști'' means people who were not members of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR).Chamber Judgment: Partidul Comuniştilor (Nepecerişti) and Ungureanu v. Romania
, European Court of Human Rights, 2 March 2005. Accessed 7 October 2006. The party president was Gheorghe I. Ungureanu and the secretary was Constantin M. Gălbeoru.

History

The party was founded in March 1996. On 19 April 1996, the Bucharest District Court dismissed Ungureanu's application to register the party, holding that the party's announced intent to establish a "humane State" founded on communist doctrine, implied that the post-1989 Romanian constitutional and legal order was, in the later words of the

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"inhumane and not based on genuine democracy". The court's decision was upheld 28 August 1996 by the Bucharest Court of Appeal, but was overturned by the

under Article 11 of the

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, and the party was registered 31 July 2006. However, in 2008 it was dissolved again by the authorities, although in the official "Political Parties Register" was still listed as active, since the party appealed the verdict and won the case. It was dissolved in 2014.

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