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Great Romania PartyThe Great Romania Party (PRM, or Partidul Romnia Mare) is a Romanian political party. It is led by Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The party is often referred to in the English-language press as the Greater Romania Party, but Great is both the officially correct English translation and closer in meaning to the Romanian-language Mare. The party has progressed from being a xenophobic, nationalistic party to a more moderate right-wing Christian Democrat party. Politics The party was founded in 1991 by Tudor and his literary protector, the writer Eugen Barbu, one year after they were encouraged to launch the "Great Romania" (Romania Mare) weekly magazine, that remains in time the most important propagandistic tool of PRM. (The historical expression "Greater Romania" refers to the idea of uniting all territories inhabited by ethnic Romanians into a single country; it was briefly achieved between the two World Wars, and is now a rallying cry for Romanian nationalists. Due to internal conditions under Communism after World War II, the expression's use was forbidden in publications until 1990, after the Romanian Revolution.) Both the ideology and the main political action of the Great Romania Party are comprised of xenophobic, nationalist articles written by Tudor. For example, in his magazine there is a permanent column called simply Unguri ("Hungarians"), in which he is trying to expose various conspiracies about the plans of the Hungarian ethnic party. The end of the year 2003, however, brought a dramatic change in Tudor's discourse and attitude toward Jews, Judaism, and the Holocaust (see Corneliu Vadim Tudor). PRM results in elections - After 1992's elections, PRM polled less than 4% of the vote and won 22 seats in Romanian legislative and it was part of the governmental coalition (the Red Quadrilateral) between 1993 and 1995.
- At the elections of 1996, PRM and Tudor polled less than 5% of the vote, still achieving 27 seats in Romanian legislative assemblies.
- After the 2000's elections, PRM is the second-largest party in the Romanian parliament. The party polled 23% of the vote, winning 126 seats in both of the Romanian legislative assemblies. In the presidential elections, Tudor polled 33% of the popular vote, being defeated after the second ballot by Ion Iliescu.
- In 2004 Vadim Tudor scored third, with 10.5% of the vote, while PRM scored 11%.
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