| Social Liberal Union | |
| Native Name: | Uniunea Social Liberală |
| Leader1 Title: | Coalition co-Presidents |
| Leader1 Name: | Victor Ponta Crin Antonescu |
| Leader2 Title: | Party Presidents |
| Leader2 Name: | Victor Ponta (PSD) Crin Antonescu (PNL) Daniel Constantin (PC) Gabriel Oprea (UNPR) |
| Founded: | 5 February 2011 |
| Dissolved: | 25 February 2014 |
| Successor: | Social Democratic Union (claimed, not legal successor)[1] [2] |
| Headquarters: | 011344 Bucharest |
| Ideology: | Big tent |
| Position: | Syncretic |
| Colors: | Red, yellow, blue |
| Seats1 Title: | Senate |
| Seats2 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
| Seats3 Title: | | seats3 = | seats4_title = County Council Presidents| seats4 = | seats5_title = County Councils| seats5 = | seats6_title = Mayors| seats6 = | seats7_title = Local Councils| seats7 = | symbol = | website = https://web.archive.org/web/20120823103117/http://uslonline.ro/| country = Romania| country2 = | state = | footnotes = Seats obtained at the 2012 election Seats obtained at the 2012 election Seats computed by adding all the seats obtained at the 2012 election by the Union and the constituent parties at the time of the election |
The Social Liberal Union (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Uniunea Social Liberală, USL) was a grand coalition of several political parties which was active in Romania during the early to mid 2010s. The alliance contained two major political parties, one major centre-left and one centre-right, more specifically the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL), respectively.
The USL was formed on 5 February 2011[3] initially between the Social Democratic Party (PSD), and the Centre Right Alliance (ACD) of National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Conservative Party (PC).
In June 2012, the USL won the local elections by a landslide. After the elections, in September, the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR), originally a breakaway from PSD and PNL, together with the PSD formed the Centre Left Alliance (ACS)[4] and entered the USL.
At the parliamentary elections in December, the four-party coalition won about two thirds of the seats in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.[5]
After the Centre Right Alliance (ACD) of PNL and PC dissolved in November 2013, the PC turned leftwards and aligned more with PSD and UNPR. As a result, the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL) broke up the coalition on 25 February 2014 and entered opposition.[6]
In the 2014 presidential election, PSD, UNPR, and PC would designate Victor Ponta as their united candidate, while the PNL formed a new Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) with the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), supporting Klaus Iohannis.
| Election | Chamber | Senate | Position | Aftermath | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 2008 | did not exist1 | did not exist1 | – | |||||
| 2012 | 4,344,288 | 58.63 | 4,457,526 | 60.10 | 2 | |||
| (2014) PNL in opposition | ||||||||
| (2014–2015) PNL in opposition | ||||||||
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