| Native Name: | Alianța PSD–UNPR–ALDE |
| Founded: | 10 February 2014 |
| Dissolved: | August 2019 |
| Position: | Center-left |
| Predecessor: | Social Liberal Union (claimed, not legal successor)[1] [2] |
| Slogan: | USL lives ! (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: USL trăiește !)[3] Proud to be Romanians ! (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Mândri că suntem români !)[4] [5] |
| Flag: | 2014 Social Democratic Union logo.jpg |
| Country: | Romania |
The PSD–UNPR–ALDE Alliance was a political alliance in Romania. It was initially established on 10 February 2014 as the Social Democratic Union between the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC).[6] However, the name was rejected by the Permanent Electoral Bureau, because an alliance with an identical name existed in 1996, and the Democratic Liberal Party, that owned the copyright for the name, refused to grant it to the PSD.[7] On 7 March 2014, the PSD–UNPR–PC Alliance was registered.[8]
At the 2014 European Parliament election in Romania, the alliance won 37.60% of the votes, coming first. It won 16 MEPs, 2 being from PC, 2 from UNPR and 12 from PSD.
On 19 June 2015, PC merged with the Liberal Reformist Party to form the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE).[9] ALDE joined the alliance, thus forming the PSD–UNPR–ALDE Alliance.[10]
After the dismissal of the Fourth Ponta Cabinet on 17 November 2015, UNPR left the alliance and, on 12 July 2016, it merged into the People's Movement Party.[11]
After the 2016 Romanian parliamentary election, PSD and ALDE formed 3 successive coalition governments. ALDE withdrew from the Dăncilă Cabinet in August 2019, thereby marking the end of the alliance.[12] [13]
| Party | Abbr. | Ideology | From | To | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor= | Social Democratic Party | PSD | Social democracy Christian left | 2014 | 2019 | ||
| bgcolor= | National Union for the Progress of Romania | UNPR | Social democracy Progressivism | 2014 | 2015 | ||
| bgcolor= | Conservative Party | PC | Conservatism Humanism | 2014 | 2015 | ||
| bgcolor= | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats | ALDE | Liberalism Conservative liberalism | 2015 | 2019 | ||