NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY (ROMANIA)

The 'Partidul Naţional Liberal' (''National Liberal Party'') is a liberal party in Romania, and the second largest party in parliament, being edged out only by the Social Democratic Party. Until April 2007, it was the largest member of the governing Justice and Truth alliance, which enjoyed a parliamentary majority due to an alliance between the Liberal Party, the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania. In April 2007, the current prime-minister, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, who is also the party leader, formed a minority government only with Democratic Union of Hungarians.
The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

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Policy

Structure

Party symbols

References

See also

External links

Policy

The party adheres to the doctrine of liberalism, advocating both economic and social liberalisation. In recent years, it has focussed more on economic liberalism. For example, one of its main election promises for the 2004 legislative election was the introduction of a flat tax rate of 16% for personal income and corporate profits. Because the Liberal Party became part of the governing coalition, it managed to introduce this change, hence giving Romania one of the most liberal tax policies in Europe.
The National Liberal Party also supports the neutrality of the state in moral and religious issues, as well as the privatisation and denationalisation of the economy, a trend which is currently taking place quite rapidly in Romania, as in other post-communist economies.
Additionally, the party supports the introduction of a parliamentary system (where the president would be elected by the parliament rather than by the people) to replace Romania's current semi-presidential system, which is based on the French model.

Structure

★ National Liberal Youth (''Tineretul Naţional Liberal'' (TNL)) www.tnl.ro

★ Liberal Student Clubs (''Cluburile Studenţeşti Liberale'' (CSL)) www.csl.ro

★ Liberal Women Organisation (''Organizaţia Femeilor Liberale'' (OFL)) www.onfl.ro

★ Liberal Collegial Group (''Gruparea Colegială Liberală'' (GCL))

Party symbols

References

1. ''Enciclopedia partidelor politice din România, 1859-2003'', Editura Meronia, Bucharest 2003, ISBN 973-8200-54-7.
2. Paul G. Nixon, Rachel Kay Gibson, Stephen J Ward, ''Political Parties and the Internet'', Routledge, 2003, ISBN 041528273X, p. 166.


★ Cliveti, Gheorghe, Liberalismul românesc. Eseu istoriografic, Editura Fundaţiei “AXIS”, Iaşi, 1996;

★ Istoricul PNL de la 1848 până astăzi, Bucureşti, 1923;

★ Rădulescu – Zoner, Şerban (coord.), Cliveti, Gheorghe, Stan, Apostol, Onişoru, Gheorghe, Şandru, Dumitru, Istoria Partidului Naţional Liberal, Editura All, Bucureşti, 2000;

★ Stan, Apostol, Iosa, Mircea, Liberalismul politic în România. De la origini până la 1918, Editura Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1996;

★ Naumescu, Valentin,Despre liberalism în România.Realităţi,dileme, perspective, EFES, Cluj-Napoca, 2001;

★ Şomlea,Vasile-Florin, Mişcarea liberală din România post'1989,Editura Ecumenica Press, Cluj-Napoca, 2006.

See also

★ Liberalism

★ Contributions to liberal theory

★ Liberalism worldwide

★ List of liberal parties

★ Liberal democracy

★ Liberalism in Romania

External links

★ National Liberal Party official site

★ National Liberal Youth official site

★ Liberal Students Clubs official site

★ Organization of Liberal Women official site

★ League of the Local Representatives of the National Liberal Party official site