The Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), led by Ion Hadârcă, became the Romanian Popular Party, and has a new leader - the political commentator Vlad Turcanu, former presidential adviser, IPN reports.

At a press conference, the vice-chair of the political party, Tatiana Potîng, said that the idea of ​​the UNIREA Bloc, set up last spring by several political entities and unionist organizations, which was committed to the goal of reunification, failed. "Thus we had to take the risk and summon up our courage to follow another idea, by creating a new political project that would assume the goals to which PLR was previously committed", said Tatiana Potîng.

Vlad Turcanu says that the Romanian Popular Party intervenes on the Moldovan political scene to promote a balanced, but firm, pro-Romanian policy to defend the legitimate interests of the majority of population in the Republic of Moldova.

The party’s vice-chairmen were elected: leader of the National Unity Bloc, Ion Leașcenco, historian Ion Varta, leader of Moldova’s Young People Civic Movement, Anatol Ursu, former vice-chairs of PLR, Tatiana Potîng, Oleg Bodrug, and former PLR MPs Valeriu Saharneanu and Ana Bejan.

The party announced its participation in the snap parliamentary elections and the general local elections of October 20th. In a few days the Romanian Popular Party will nominate the candidates for the uninominal constituencies that remained vacant and for the position of Chisinau general mayor.