From: acarstea@icaen.uiowa.edu (Alin-Andrei Carsteanu)
Subject: Re: Platforms ? 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:27:19 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

In article <1992Sep29.210448.410@src.dec.com> broder@src.dec.com writes:
>Can a good (and informed) soul post a two line description of the
>various parties, full names and current platforms, especially the
>small ones?  I am starting to get lost in the alphabet soup.
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Andrei

To: broder@src.dec.com
Subject: Re: Platforms ? 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
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In article <1992Sep29.210448.410@src.dec.com> you write:
>Can a good (and informed) soul post a two line description of the
>various parties, full names and current platforms, especially the
>small ones?  I am starting to get lost in the alphabet soup.
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Andrei

I don't claim to be neither good, nor informed, but I can post a
couple of acronyms. What do you mean "especially the small ones"?
I hope you mean "the medium ones", which got 1-10% and have been
quoted in statistics. Otherwise, if you mean the really small ones,
I have to warn you, there are almost 200, and I don't even know
how the Romanian election law functions, because to my knowledge,
there is no "minimal percentage law" like the 5% in Germany, so
maybe they obtain the right to have a leg, a foot, or maybe just
a finger in Parliament?
Anyway:
(to prevent any critics, I'll list them in the order of percentages):
DNSF=Democratic National Salvation Front (FDSN=Frontul Democratic de Salvare Nationala)
     (sustains Iliescu)
     (Spaniards call it Junta de Salud Nacional: I had a nice laugh on that)
DC=Democratic Convention (CD=Conventia Democrata)
     (alliance of 18 center & center-right parties; backed Constantinescu for president)
NSF=National Salvation Front (FSN=Frontul de Salvare Nationala)
     (leader Petre Roman; backed Caius T. Dragomir for presidency)
HDUR=Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR=Uniunea Democrata a Maghiarilor din Ro-
     mania); (leader Domokos Geza)
PRNU=Party for Romanian National Unity (PUNR)
     (backed Gh. Funar, the mayor of Cluj, for Presidency; I don't know whether he's the
     leader or not)
GRP=Greater Romania Party (PRM=Partidul Romania Mare - see the erroneous translation)
    (Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor, also called CVT, or VCT, or WC-T, are
    the president and the secretary general; I don't know who's who)
DAP=Democratic Agrarian Party (PDA=Partidul Democrat Agrar) (I don't know the leader)
SLP=Socialist Labor Party (PSM=Partidul Socialist Muncitoresc)
    (Ilie Verdet leader; ever heard of him before...?)
EMR=Ecologist Movement of Romania (MER=Miscarea Ecologista din Romania)
    (former leader and now honorary president: Toma George Maiorescu; don't know leader)
RP=Republican Party (PR=Partidul Republican; the acronym actually used for Petre Roman)
   (leader and presidential candidate: Ion Manzatu)
NLP=National Liberal Party (PNL=Partidul National Liberal)
    (leader Radu Campeanu, former presidential candidate in 1990)

...and that's about it, what I know of it, at least.

	Alin

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