The Romanian Democratic Convention (Romanian: Convenţia Democrată Română, CDR) was an electoral alliance of several political parties of Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

, active from early 1992 until 2000.

CDR was founded before the 1992 local elections, by PNŢCD - Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party, PNL - National Liberal Party

National Liberal Party (Romania)

The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...

, and others.

The main purpose of CDR was to mount an effective opposition against the all-dominating National Salvation Front

National Salvation Front

The National Salvation Front was the governing body of Romania in the first weeks after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, subsequently turned into a political party...

, a political force made up mostly of former second and third rank Communists, which assumed leadership of the country after the 1989 revolution.

CDR managed to win Bucharest

Bucharest

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 and most other large cities in the local elections of 1992, but FSN swept over almost all rural areas and small towns.
CDR won the 1996 Romanian elections

Romanian legislative election, 1996

Legislative elections were held in Romania on 3 November 1996, together with the Presidential election. The elections were won by the Romanian Democratic Convention, an alliance of liberal, Christian Democratic and green parties. This marked the first time that the Party of Social Democracy was out...

, and their candidate Emil Constantinescu

Emil Constantinescu

Emil Constantinescu was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000.He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist...

 became president. Following is the distribution of seats in the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of Romania

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 315 seats, to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote on a proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms...

 between the components of the alliance:

• PNŢCD - 83 deputies
• PNL - 25 deputies
• PNL-CD - 5 deputies
• PAR - 3 deputies
• PER - 5 deputies
• FER - 1 deputy

Members

• PNŢCD - Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party
• PNL - National Liberal Party
  National Liberal Party (Romania)
  The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...
  
  
• PNL-CD - National Liberal Party - Democratic Convention
• PAR - The Alternative of Romania Party
• PER - Ecologist Party of Romania
  Ecologist Party of Romania
  The Romanian Ecologist Party was founded by Petre Metanie, a teacher, in 1978 as a political organisation opposed to Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Romanian Communist Party's policy of indiscriminate economic growth, without regard for ecological consequences...
  
  
• FER - Romanian Ecologist Federation