National_Liberal_Party-Câmpeanu
National Liberal Party–Câmpeanu (Romanian: Partidul Național Liberal–Câmpeanu; PNL–C) was a national liberal, conservative liberal, and classical liberal political party in Romania which was established as a split-off from the main National Liberal Party (PNL) during the mid 1990s by former first PNL re-founding president Radu Câmpeanu in the wake of the violent and bloody 1989 Romanian Revolution.[1]
Radu Câmpeanu decided to leave the main PNL from several main reasons, among which, most notably, there were his presidency loss at the congress in 1993 in front of Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (yet the former was elected vice-president of the party at the same congress nevertheless) and his reluctance and opposition towards the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) with respect to the incorporation of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) on common lists for the 1992 general election.
PNL–C, the official abbreviation under which the political party was known, competed in the 1996 and 2000 Romanian general and local elections before being re-integrated in the main PNL through the process of absorption in 2003, one year before the 2004 general election.[2] During both the late 1990s and early 2000s, the party failed to enter the parliament's afferent legislatures for those periods and consequently remained in extra-parliamentary opposition towards both the CDR and PDSR from 1996 until 2003.