New Generation Party – Christian Democratic

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Partidul Noua Generaţie - Creştin Democrat




Leader	Gigi Becali
Senate Leader	none
Chamber Leader	none

Founded	2000
Headquarters	Blănari Street, Bucharest, Romania

Political Ideology	Nationalism, Christian democracy
International Affiliation	none
European Affiliation	none
European Parliament Group	{{{ep-group}}}
Colours	light blue and white

Website	www.png.ro

See also	Politics of Romania Political parties Elections

The New Generation Party – Christian Democratic (Partidul Noua Generaţie - Creştin Democrat, PNGCD; formerly Partidul Noua Generaţie, PNG) is a nationalist, Christian democratic political party in Romania. In the last legislative elections, on November 28, 2004, it won 2.2% of the popular vote but no seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Created in 2000 as a centrist grouping around former Mayor of Bucharest Viorel Lis, it was taken over in January 2004 by businessman Gigi Becali, who became its leader.

1 Notable members
2 Controversies
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Notable members

Dan Pavel - executive president, former advisor of Gigi Becali, political science professor.
Alex Mihai Stoenescu - vice president, historian.
Marian Oprea - vice president, talk-show host (on DDTV) and owner of Lumea (international politics magazine).

[edit] Controversies

The New Generation Party – Christian Democratic has been suspected of having links with the neo-fascist organization Noua Dreaptă (dedicated to an Iron Guard revival). A former advisor of Becali, Dan Pavel, stated that "it followed that people from Noua Dreaptă would become the "spinal cord" [foundation] of the New Generation Party."^[1]

Noua Dreaptă denied any connection with PNG-CD and none of the leaders of Noua Dreaptă became a representative of PNG-CD.^[2]

The New Generation Party has been described by the United States Department of State as an "extreme nationalist party"^[3]

[edit] References

^ Noii legionari se laudă cu „cuiburi“ în toată ţara ("The new Legionnaires pride themselves with "nests" throughout the country"), in Gândul, June 5, 2006
^ Comunicat de presă al Noii Drepte ("Noua Dreaptă press release"), January 1, 2005
^ International Religious Freedom Report 2006, US Department of State

[edit] External links

v • d • e Political parties in Romania

Represented in the Chamber of Deputies (329)	Social Democratic Party (103) - National Liberal Party (54) - Democratic Party (53) - Greater Romania Party (29) - Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (22) - Conservative Party (16) - Ethnic minorities parties (18; 1 each; including Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania - Party of the Roma) - Independents (31)

Represented in the Senate (137)	Social Democratic Party (43) - National Liberal Party (24) - Democratic Party (23) - Greater Romania Party (16) - Conservative Party (10) - Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (9) - Independents (11)

Represented in the European Parliament (35)	Democratic Party (16) - Social Democratic Party (10) - National Liberal Party (6) - Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (2) - Independent member (1)

Not represented in Parliament*	New Generation Party (2.30%) - Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (1.89%) - Ecologist Party of Romania (0.77%) - People's Action (0.49%) - Socialist Alliance Party (0.32%) - National Initiative Party - Green Party *average 2004 result for the two chambers given in parentheses

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