Alliance for Romanian Unity

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The Alliance for Romanian Unity (Romanian: Alianța pentru Unitatea Românilor, AUR) was a political alliance in Romania.

History

The AUR was formed as an alliance of the Republican Party (PR) and the Romanian National Unity Party (PUNR).^[1] It received 2.1% of the Chamber of Deputies vote in the 1990 general elections, winning nine seats. It also received 2.2% of the Senate vote, winning two seats.^[2]

The two parties contested the 1992 general elections alone; the PUNR nominated Gheorghe Funar as its presidential candidates, whilst the PR put forward Ioan Mânzatu. Funar finished third with 10.8% of the vote, whilst Mânzatu finishing last of the six candidates with 3%. The PUNR won 14 Senate seats and 30 Chamber seats, whilst the PR failed to win seats in either house.

References

↑ 1990 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies University of Essex
↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1599–1600 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

Political parties in Romania

Represented in the Chamber of Deputies (387)	Social Democratic Party + National Union for the Progress of Romania (191) National Liberal Party (106) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (24) Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (17) People's Movement Party (13) Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (1) Green Party (1) Ethnic minorities parties (18; 1 each) Unaffiliated (6)

Represented in the Senate (168)	Social Democratic Party + National Union for the Progress of Romania (71) National Liberal Party (56) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (9) Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (8) People's Movement Party (1) Unaffiliated (21)

Represented in the European Parliament (32)	Social Democratic Party + National Union for the Progress of Romania (S&D, 14) National Liberal Party (EPP, 8) Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (EPP, 2) People's Movement Party (EPP, 1) Party of Humanist Power (S&D, 1) M10 (ECR, 1) Independent (ALDE, 3 EPP, 1 ENF, 1)

Not represented in Parliament*	Greater Romania Party (1.47%) Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (0.79%) Romanian Ecologist Party (0.79%) Socialist Party (0.03%) New Republic New Generation Party – Christian Democratic

Portal:Politics List of political parties Politics of Romania *average 2012 result for the two chambers given in parentheses

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