National Liberal Party–Câmpeanu

[1] Radu Câmpeanu decided to leave the main PNL from several main reasons, among which, most notably, there were his presidency loss at the congress in 1993 in front of Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (yet the former was elected vice-president of the party at the same congress nevertheless) and his reluctance and opposition towards the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) with respect to the incorporation of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) on common lists for the 1992 general election.

[2] During both the late 1990s and early 2000s, the party failed to enter the parliament's afferent legislatures for those periods and consequently remained in extra-parliamentary opposition towards both the CDR and PDSR from 1996 until 2003.

Between the mid 1990s and late 1990s, PNL–C refused to be a part of the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) and remained in extra-parliamentary opposition towards both the Red Quadrilateral coalition headed by FDSN Prime Minister Nicolae Văcăroiu and the subsequent CDR-led coalition successively headed by Victor Ciorbea, Radu Vasile, and Mugur Isărescu.

In 1996, Radu Câmpeanu ran once again for president under the National Liberal Ecologist Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Național Liberal Ecologistă; ANLE) but obtained a very feeble 0.34% share of the total ballots cast back then (or, in absolute numbers, 43,780 votes).

Notes: 1 ANLE stands for the National Liberal Ecologist Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Național Liberală-Ecologistă) which was composed of PNL–C alongside the Green Party (PV) which was then known as the Green Alternative Ecologists' Party (Romanian: Partidul Alternativa Verde-Ecologiștii).

Portrait of Radu Câmpeanu in Revista 22 (January 1990). Câmpeanu was the founder and president of the party and initial PNL presidential candidate in the 1990 Romanian presidential election , coming second behind Ion Iliescu of the National Salvation Front (FSN).