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![[flag of Alianţa Moldova Noastrǎ]](../images/m/md}amn1.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 April 2009
Alianța Moldova Noastrǎ" (AMN, Our Moldova Alliance) was founded on 19 July 2003 as the merger of "Alianţei Social-Democrate din Moldova" (ASDM, Social-Democratic Alliance of Moldova", "Partidului Libera" (PL, Liberal Party - not the same as the current PL shown below), "Alianţei Independenţilor din Republica Moldova" (AIRM, Independents' Alliance of the Republic of Moldova) and "Partidul Democrat-Popular din Moldova" (DPPM, Democratic People's Party of Moldova".
AMN is chaired by Serafim Urecheam, a former Mayor
of Chişinău and the former chairman of AIRM.
In the 2009 legislative elections, AMN obtained nearly 10% of the vote
and 11 out of the 101 seats.
The flag of AMN, as seen on photos of street demonstrations available
on the party's website, is yellow with the emblem of AMN.
The emblem of AMN is made of a yellow half-sun with 13 rays, placed on
a blue background. The short name of the party "MOLDOVA NOASTRǍ" is
written below the half-sun.
Sources:
http://www.amn.md/lang-ro.html
http://www.amn.md/activitati-0-11-0.html
Ivan Sache, 19 April
2009
At
http://faculty.mercer.edu/grant_jc/moldov78.jpg is a vertical version of the
flag, and at
http://www.liberal-international.org/contentFiles/images/1.jpg one may also
see a party banner-oid with reversed colors.
Eugene Ipavec, 23 April
2009
AMN disappeared in 2011.
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Consiliul Unirii]](../images/m/md}cu.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
Consiliul Unirii (CU - Council of the Union) was established on 29 February
2012 as "a broad national consensus organization, which aims to continue the
efforts of the National Council of the Union [Consiliului Naţional al Unirii -
CNU], founded on 1 December 1991, as an act of will of a group of
parliamentarians from Chişinău and Bucharest, and which declares itself open to
individuals, political parties, associations, foundations and other entities of
the society from the entire Romanian space on both banks of the Prut, as well as
from the Romanian communities existing all over the world. The Council of the
Union will promote the idea of Romanian national unity and will make efforts
to convince the rulers of Chişinău, Bucharest and the decisive political factors
in the West that this unity also incorporates the strategic interests of the
Euro-Atlantic world.
2012 is a symbolic year - it is 200 years since the
annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire. We, those who plead for the
return of the Romanian historical territories to the Motherland Romania, want to
give back to our compatriots the confidence that their life, together with the
Romanian brothers, will be a good, safe one, and their children will have a
dignified future."
The most famous member of CU is Mircea Druc (b. 1941),
who served as Prime Minister of Moldova in 1990-1991. Then leader of the Popular
Front, Druc called for the suppression of the Moldovan SSR and union with
Romania.
https://www.consiliul-unirii.ro/
CU uses a Moldovan / Romanian flag
charged in the center with the organization's emblem, which features a map of
the two states, colored as their respective flags, and a blue border charged
with 12 yellow stars to recall the organization's pro-European posture.
http://www.consiliul-unirii.ro/2015/05/19/consiliul-unirii-sigur-de-toate-componentele-sale-adera-la-bun-care-a-fost-chiar-ideea-pnl-din-2010/dsc_4889/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJAK0ctqpI
Ivan Sache, 26
November 2020
![[flag of Democraţia Acasă]](../images/m/md}ppda.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
Democraţia Acasă (PPDA - Democracy Home) was established on 31 July 2011,
succeeding the youth movement of the same name, and registered as a political
party on 2 September 2011. PPDA has been presided since then by Vasile Costiuc.
The flag of PPDA is blue with the party emblem.
Photos
https://www.facebook.com/PartidulDemocratiaAcasa/photos/d41d8cd9/691466014235520/
https://www.facebook.com/PartidulDemocratiaAcasa/photos/862605447121575
https://www.facebook.com/PartidulDemocratiaAcasa/photos/764880990227355
https://m.ok.ru/group/51269128814755/album/52286989533347/571869738659
The emblem of PPDA is prescribed in Article 4 of the party's Statutes,
adopted during its 2nd Congress held on 10 December 2011, as "composed of seven
white stars, which symbolize beginning, mission, responsibility, creation, and
continuous and sustainable development of society. The stars are arranged in a
circle inscribing letters 'DA', the abbreviation of 'Democraţia Acasă'. Both the
stars and the 'DA' abbreviation are white, placed on a dark blue background."
http://www.e-democracy.md/files/parties/ppda-statute-2011-2-ro.pdf
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
The flag of MAE, as shown on photos available on the party's website, is white with the simplified emblem of the party. The emblem of MAE is made of the blue letters "MAE", placed above a thin horizontal stripe vertically divided blue-yellow-red (the national colours), the "A" entering a circle of 11 blue stars surrounding a blue arrow.
On some flags, the stars are yellow and the arrow is omitted:
http://ae.md/index.php?do=gallery&act=2&cid=2&fid=51 - 2nd
Extraordinary Congress of MAE
http://ae.md/index.php?do=gallery&act=1&cid=3 - Youth European Forum.
On other flags, seemingly more recent, the stars are yellow and the
arrow is shown.
http://ae.md/index.php?do=gallery&act=1&cid=8 - Launching of the election campaign
http://ae.md/index.php?do=gallery&act=1&cid=12 - Anti-corruption march
http://ae.md/index.php?do=gallery&act=1&cid=14 - Anti-corruption march
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2009
MAE disappeared in 2011.
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Mişcarea Populară Antimafie]](../images/m/md}mpa.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
Mişcarea Populară Antimafie (MPA - People's Anti-Mafia Movement) was
established on 6 March 2011 by Sergiu Mocanu and Daniela Bodrug, and registered
as a political party on 18 April 2011.
The emblem of MPA is prescribed in
Article 1.9 of the party's Statutes, adopted on 6 March 2011 during the
Constituent Congress, as "a dark red circle intersected by its radius,
superimposed by the words 'NU! MAFIEI' [No! Mafia]"
http://www.e-democracy.md/files/parties/mpa-statute-2011-ro.pdf
The
flag of MPA is white with the party's emblem.
Photo
http://tvrmoldova.md/politic/miscarea-populara-antimafie-inregistrata-in-calitate-de-concurent-electoral/
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Partidul Acţiunea Democratică]](../images/m/md}pad.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
Partidul Acţiunea Democratică (PAD - Party for Democratic Action) was
established on 6 November 2011 and registered as a political party on 16 January
2012.
The emblem of PAD is prescribed in Article 1.12 of the party's
Statutes, adopted during its 2nd Congress held on 10 December 2011, as "the
stylized image of a clock, accompanied by the inscription 'PAD' and the writing
'Partidul Acţiunea Democratică'".
Article 1.13 prescribes the official color
of the party as "purple and its combination with white and / or black."
http://www.e-democracy.md/files/parties/pad-statute-2011-ro.pdf
The
flag of PAD is white with the party's emblem.
Photos
https://www.publika.md/partidul-actiunea-democratica-s-a-lansat-oficial-in-cursa-electorala-ce-prioritati-au-reprezentantii-pad_2141301.html
https://www.ipn.md/ro/mihai-godea-indeamna-gagauzii-sa-ignore-referendumurile-din-2-februarie-7965_1010613.html
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Partidul Comuniştilor din Republica Moldova]](../images/m/md}pcrm.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 27 November 2020
based on
https://commons.wikimedia.org
The "Partidul Comuniştilor din Republica Moldova" (PCRM; in English, Party of
the Communists of the Republic of Moldova) was founded in October 1993 as the
successor of the Communist Party, banned in August 1991. In the 2001 general
elections, the PCRM won 71 out of the 101 seats in the Parliament; the PCRM
representatives voted a modification of the Constitution allowing the Parliament
to appoint the President of the Republic, and Vladimir Voronin (b. 1941), the
historic leader of the PCRM, was appointed head of the state on 4 April 2001. In
the 2005 elections, the PCRM won only 56 seats but other parties joined it to
promote Vornonin for a second mandate as the President of the Republic.
The website of the PCRM shows the party logo as a red hammer-and-sickle with a
red open book above the hammer. Photographs available on the party website show
two flags that are surely related to the PCRM but presumably none of them is
"the" PCRM flag. The first flag is red with a ring of 12 white stars surrounding
a red and white hand-like emblem. This emblem belongs to the "Uniunea
Tineretului Comunist din Moldova (in English, "Union of the Communist Youth of
Moldova"), the youth branch of the PCRM. The second flag is white with a red
hammer-and-sickle surmounting the red lettering "Mbl / ZA BAC!"
http://www.pcrm.md/en/
The website
of the Union of the Communist Youth of Moldova has a photo gallery with several
other flags, including:
- A flag with the same starry pattern as described
above, with "EU / Vot#z" instead of the hand symbol, # denoting here a
hammer-and-sickle:
http://www.utcm.md/index.php?action=photo&id=324
- The same flag with
the red and white colours counterchanged:
http://www.utcm.md/index.php?action=photo&id=477
- A red flag with the
youth branch emblem and the white lettering "KOMSOMOL":
http://www.utcm.md/index.php?action=photo&id=329
- The same flag with
the red and white colours counterchanged:
http://www.utcm.md/index.php?action=photo&id=465
Ivan Sache, 27
July 2008
The flag of the PCRM is red with the party's emblem, in white.
Photos
https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-communist-symbols/24725790.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/communists_protest_in_moldova/24418138.html
The symbols are described in the party's Statutes as follows: "The party's
emblem is composed of a sickle, a hammer and an open book. The flag is red."
http://www.e-democracy.md/files/parties/pcrm-statute-2008-ro.pdf
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Partidul Conservator (PC)]](../images/m/md}pc.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 27 July 2008
The "Partidul Conservator" (PC; in English, Conservative Party) was founded
on 24 June 2006 by Natalia Nirca and officially registered on 12 July 2006. The
statutes of the party say: "(2) Emblema şi simbolul (semnul) electoral al P.C.
constă în imaginea unui strugure de poamă de culoare violet, două frunze de
viţă-de-vie de culoare verde şi codiţa de culoare aurie." The emblem of the
party is described as a purple grape with two green leaves and a golden stem.
http://www.conservator.md/ - Party
website
The flag of the party is shown, as a graphic, as pale yellow with
the party's symbol in the middle. The same graphic appears on a poster hanging
on the wall shown on a photograph:
http://www.conservator.md/foto/rom.php?id_parent=7
http://www.conservator.md/foto/files/20070312170338.JPG - Direct link
to the image
Ivan Sache, 27 July 2008
Last presence of PC in election was recorded in 2010.
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Partidul Democrat din Moldova]](../images/m/md}pdm.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
At
http://www.deca.md/?cat=art_com&id=3115 a table flag of the "Partidului
Democrat din Moldova" is also shown.
Eugene Ipavec, 23 April 2009
The PDM was founded on 8 February 1997 and registered on 25 March 1997 as
Mişcarea social-politică "Pentru o Moldovă Democratică şi Prosperă" (MpMDP -
Social-Political Movement "For a Democratic and Prosperous Moldova") and renamed
on 15 April 2000.
Party member Pavel Filip (b. 1966) was Prime Minister from
2016 to 2019.
The flag of the PDM is prescribed in Article 7.1 of the
party's Statutes adopted during its 8th Congress, held on 24 December 2016.
"The flag shall be rectangular, in proportions 1:2, blue with the symbol of
PDM in the center. Beneath the symbol is the writing "PDM" in red capital
letters."
http://www.e-democracy.md/files/parties/pdm-statute-2016-ro.pdf
Photos
http://www.canal2.md/news/partidul-democrat-din-moldova-a-initiat-o-campanie-de-colectare-a-semnaturilor-pentru-demiterea-sefului-statului-igor-dodon_109788.html
http://tvrmoldova.md/actualitate/live-presedintele-parti
http://tvrmoldova.md/ro/actualitate/partidul-democrat-s-a-mutat-la-sediul-din-care-a-plecat-acum-doi-anidului-democrat-din-moldova-pavel-filip-sustine-un-briefing-de-presa/
https://en.publika.md/dpm-gives-up-on-power-but-the-constitutional-crisis-remains-unsolved-_2658731.html
Ivan Sache, 26 November 2020
![[flag of Partidul Liberal (PL)]](../images/m/md}pl.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 27 July 2008
Emblem after the party's website, http://www.pl.md/
The "Partidul Liberal" (PL; in English, Liberal Party) was founded on 24
April 2005 as the successor of the "Partidul Reformei" (in English, Party of
Reform), itself formed on 5 September 1993. In the 2007 local elections, the
PL won 11 out of the 51 seats in the Municipal Council of Chişinău; its
candidate, Dorin Chirtoacă (b. 1978), was elected Mayor of Chişinău with 61%
of the votes.
Photographs available on the PL website:
http://www.pl.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=28 show the flag of the PL as light
blue with the emblem of the party in the middle and the name of the party in
dark blue letters above the emblem. The emblem of the PL features two
united, dark blue, men walking in the same direction surrounded by 12 yellow
stars and flanked by the red letters "PL" on the right of the stars' ring.
Direct links to the most relevant pictures:
http://www.pl.md/rwx_gallery/17_iunie_2007_rezultatele_preliminare/rez_aleg_12.jpg
http://www.pl.md/rwx_gallery/Manifestatia_din_1_Decembrie/1.jpg
http://www.pl.md/rwx_gallery/Manifestatia_din_1_Decembrie/3.jpg
http://www.pl.md/rwx_gallery/Conferinte_Teritoriale/d%20185.jpg
Ivan Sache,
27 July 2008
