The New Generation Party – Christian Democratic (Partidul Noua Generație - Creștin Democrat, PNGCD; formerly Partidul Noua Generație, PNG) was a neo-legionary political party in Romania.

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 (owner of FC Steaua București), who became its leader. Its ideology has since changed to extreme nationalism and Orthodox Christianity. Since then, it has pursued a radically nationalistic, xenophobic and homophobic scheme. In the 2004 legislative elections, PNG won 2.2% of the popular vote but no seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate.

For the 2009 European Parliament election, the PNGCD forged an electoral alliance with the far-right Greater Romania Party (PRM). PNGCD leader Becali was elected member of the European Parliament on the PRM list. The party's ideology under Becali's leadership is close to that of the pre-war fascist Iron Guard (or "Legionary Movement"). It fuses nationalist mythology with Christian Orthodox conservatism.

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).

Electoral history

Legislative elections

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"

! rowspan="2" |Election

! colspan="3" |Chamber

! colspan="3" |Senate

! rowspan="2" |Position

! rowspan="2" |Aftermath

|-

!Votes

!%

!Seats

!Votes

!%

!Seats

|-

!2000

|19,662

|0.16

|

|27,576

|0.25

|

|style="text-align: center;"|20th

|

|-

!rowspan=2|2004

|rowspan=2|227,443

|rowspan=2|2.23

|rowspan=2|

|rowspan=2|241,486

|rowspan=2|2.36

|rowspan=2|

|rowspan=2; style="text-align: center;"|5th

|

|-

|

|-

!rowspan=3|2008

|rowspan=3|156,901

|rowspan=3|2.3

|rowspan=3|

|rowspan=3|174,519

|rowspan=3|2.53

|rowspan=3|

|rowspan=3; style="text-align: center;"|6th

| government (until December 2009)

|-

| (until May 2012)

|-

| (until December 2012)

|-

!rowspan=4|2012

|rowspan=4; colspan=2|did not compete<sup>1</sup>

|rowspan=4|

|rowspan=4; colspan=2|did not compete<sup>1</sup>

|rowspan=4|

|rowspan=4; style="text-align: center;"|-

|

|-

| (until December 2014)

|-

| (until November 2015)

|-

|

|-

!2016

|colspan=8; style="text-align: center;"|did not compete

|}

Notes:

<sup>1</sup> <small>PNG-CD competed on PNL ballot.</small>

Presidential elections

{| class=wikitable width=100%

! rowspan=2|Election

! rowspan=2|Candidate

! colspan=3|First round

! colspan=3|Second round

|-

!Votes

!Percentage

!Position

!Votes

!Percentage

!Position

|-align=center

!2000

|colspan=7|did not compete

|-align=center

!2004

| || 184,560 || || || bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=3|

|-align=center

!2009

| || 186,390 || || || bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=3|

|-align=center

!2014

|colspan=7|did not compete

|-align=center

!2019

|colspan=7|did not compete

|}

European elections

{| class=wikitable style="text-align: right;" width=70%

|-

! Election !! Votes !! Percentage !! MEPs !! Position !! EU Party !! EP Group

|- style="text-align:center;"

! 2007

| 248,863

| 4.85%

|

| 6th

| —

| —

|- style="text-align:center;"

! 2009

| colspan=2|did not compete<sup>1</sup>

|

| —

| —

| NI

|- style="text-align:center;"

! 2014

| colspan=4|did not compete

| —

| —

|- style="text-align:center;"

! 2019

| colspan=4|did not compete

| —

| —

|}

Notes:

<sup>1</sup> <small>PNG-CD competed on PRM ballot.</small>

See also

  • :Category:New Generation Party (Romania) politicians

References

  • Official site