European People's Party of Moldova

European People's Party of Moldova
Partidul Popular European din Moldova
Abbreviation PPEM
Chairman Iurie Leancă
Founded 23 March 2015
Split from Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova
Headquarters Chişinău, Moldova
Ideology Conservatism
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre-right
National affiliation European People’s Platform Electoral Bloc — Iurie Leancă
Parliament
2 / 101
District Presidents
1 / 32
Website
ppe.md
Politics of Moldova
Political parties
Elections

The European People’s Party of Moldova (Romanian: Partidul Popular European din Moldova, PPEM) is a centre-right political party in Moldova. The party is led by Iurie Leancă, who was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2013 to 2015. For the duration of this premiership, Leancă was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova (PLDM).

History

The government of Moldova which emerged from coalition talks after the 2014 parliamentary election did not command a parliamentary majority and relied on support from the Moldovan Communist party (PCRM). The PLDM, led by former Prime Minister Vlad Filat, conceded Leancă's departure from office to the PCRM as part of this arrangement. Leancă, who was elected on the PLDM list, resigned from the party in response and launched the PPEM to continue advocating positions, notably Pro-Europeanism, he feels his former party has failed to uphold by entering into informal cooperation with Moldova's Communist Party.[1] Besides Leancă, former deputy Prime Minister Eugen Carpov and Nicolae Juravschi are the party's other MPs. The party participated in the 2015 local election as the European People’s Platform Electoral Bloc — Iurie Leancă with the Liberal Reformist Party, Democratic Action and Democracy at Home.

Ideology

The party leadership has expressed opposition to Moldova's communist legacy and opposes even informal cooperation with communist parties. From this perspective anti-communism can be seen as party of the PPEM's platform.

“ “The PLDM abandoned without hesitation its original principles. The Liberal Democrats didn’t simply form an alliance with the PCRM, but also borrowed some Communist techniques from them” ”
— Iurie Leancă, moldova.org[2]

Election results

Local elections

District and municipal councils

Election year # of
votes		 % of
votes		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
2015 97,879 7.61
67 / 1,116

City and rural councils

Election year # of
votes		 % of
votes		 # of
overall seats won		 +/–
2015 62,690 5.90

Mayors

Election year # of
mayors		 % of
mayors		 # of
overall mandates won		 +/–
2015 27 3.0
27 / 898

References

  1. ↑ "Iurie Leanca launches European People’s Party of Moldova". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Former Prime Minister Iurie Leanca presents the European People’s Party of Moldova". 23 March 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, January 19, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.