New Generation – Christian Democratic Party

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Partidul Noua Generaţie - Creştin Democrat




Leader	Gigi Becali
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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 2004 elections

The New Generation – Christian Democratic Party (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 Representative members
2 Controversies
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Representative members

Alex Mihai Stoenescu - vice president, historian.
Marian Oprea - vice president, talk-show host (on DDTV) and owner of Lumea (international politics magazine).
Dan Pavel - recent member, former advisor of Gigi Becali, political science professor.
Corneliu Ciontu - vice president, independent senator, former president and vice president of Greater Romania Party and People's Party.

[edit] Controversies

The New Generation – Christian Democratic Party 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

Official site

Political parties of Romania
Represented in the Chamber of Deputies (331)	Justice and Truth (101) (PNL (51) + PD (50)) \| Social Democratic Party (107) \| Greater Romania Party (30) \| Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (22) \| Conservative Party (19) \| Ethnic minorities parties (18; 1 each) \| Independents (34)
Represented in the Senate (137)	Justice and Truth (42) (PNL (21) + PD (21)) \| Social Democratic Party (43) \| Greater Romania Party (18) \| Conservative Party (11) \| Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (10) \| Independents (13)
Represented in the European Parliament (35)	National Liberal Party (5) \| Democratic Party (3) \| Social Democratic Party (12) \| Greater Romania Party (5) \| Conservative Party (2) \| Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (3) \| Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (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%) *average 2004 result for the two chambers given in parentheses