Conservative Party (Romania) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Conservative Party of Romania (Romanian: Partidul Conservator) is a political party formed in 1991, after the fall of Communism, under the name of the Romanian Humanist Party (Partidul Umanist Român, PUR). From 2005 until December 3, 2006,[1] the party was a junior member of the ruling coalition. The party took its present name, Conservative Party, on May 7, 2005.
The current Conservative Party states it promotes tradition, family, social solidarity, European integration, and a nationalism without chauvinism. It claims the heritage of the former historical Romanian Conservative Party, one of the two main political forces in Romania before the First World War. There is no direct, uninterrupted link between the two parties — the historical Conservative Party was dissolved after World War I — but the current party sustains and embraces the values of the historical one.
In 2005, the party organized a march "for family values" as a reaction to the Bucharest GayFest pride parade. The party is opposed to the legalisation of same-sex marriage, even though Octavian Petrovici, the vice-president of the party's Bucharest division, stated that the party "respects the choice" of same-sex couples.[2]
The party also supports the introduction of compulsory religious education in Romanian schools (currently, such classes are optional).[3]
