 the greater romania party (, prm) is a romanian nationalist political party, led by corneliu vadim tudor. the party is sometimes referred to in english as the great romania party. it briefly participated in government from 1993 to 1995 (in nicolae vÄcÄroiu's cabinet). in 2000, tudor received the second largest number of votes in romania's presidential elections, partially as a result of protest votes lodged by romanians frustrated with the fractionalization and mixed performance of the 1996-2000 romanian democratic convention government. tudor's second place position ensured he would compete in the second round run-off against former president and romanian social democratic party (pdsr) candidate ion iliescu, who won by a large margin. parallels are often drawn with the situation in france two years later, when far right front national party leader jean-marie le pen sim
Eurosceptic_parties Political_parties_established_in_1991 Right-wing_populism Romanian_nationalism