National Initiative Party

National Initiative Party Partidul Inițiativa Națională

Abbreviation	PIN^[1]
President	Lavinia Șandru
Founded	December 2006
Dissolved	December 2011
Split from	PD
Merged into	UNPR^[2]
Headquarters	Calea Victoriei 100, et.1, ap.16 Sector 1 Bucharest
Ideology	Social democracy^[1] Environmentalism^[3] Sovereignism^[4]
Political position	Centre-left^[5]
European affiliation	EUDemocrats
Colours	Red
Seats in the Senate	0 / 136
Seats in the Chamber	0 / 330
Seats in the European Parliament	0 / 33
Website
www.nip.ro
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The National Initiative Party (Romanian: Partidul Inițiativa Națională, PIN)^[1] was a small social democratic^[1] Romanian political party. It emerged after three Democratic Party (PD) MCDs were expelled form the party a few days after the Justice and Truth Alliance (DA) narrowly won the 2004 legislative election. The three members are: Cosmin Gușă, Lavinia Șandru, and Aurelian Pavelescu. In 2011, the party changed its name to the National Initiative Party - Ecologist (Romanian: Partidul Inițiativa Națională - Ecologist, Eco-PIN) in order to highlight the party's ideology.^[6] The party merged into UNPR in December 2011.^[7]

Its founding members were political analyst (Cosmin Gușă), member of UNPR (Lavinia Șandru), and had a dispute over the PNȚCD leadership (currently still held by Aurelian Pavelescu).

Electoral history

European elections

Election	Votes	Percentage	MEPs	Position	EU Party	EP Group
2007	124,829	2.43%	0 / 35	10th	EUD	—
2009	did not compete				EUD	—

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Online Appendix: Measurement. Party-level indicators: Clientelism" (PDF). 2015. p. 8.
^ "UNPR a fuzionat cu PIN - Știri - Politica Românească".
^ "UNPR a fuzionat cu PIN - Știri - Politica Românească".
^ "Partidul Iniţiativa Naţională (PIN) — Europe Politique". www.europe-politique.eu. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
^ "UNPR a fuzionat cu PIN - Știri - Politica Românească".
^ abrevierile.ro. "Abrevierea Eco-PIN pe abrevierile.ro". abrevierile.ro. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
^ "UNPR a fuzionat cu PIN - Știri - Politica Românească".

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