Romania\u2019s National Liberal Party (PNL) announced that it approved the opening of negotiations for a merger by absorption with the For\u021ba Dreptei party. The move is intended to launch the proposed \u2018Modernization Pole,\u2019 a wider center-right political alliance.<\/p>\n
The PNL said<\/a> its National Political Bureau unanimously approved the negotiations on Sunday, November 8. The initiative follows a direction endorsed at the party\u2019s June 2026 congress.<\/p>\n PNL leader Ilie Bolojan, a former prime minister, said the party would use its time in opposition to build \u201ca serious center-right alternative\u201d for the 2028 elections, based on \u201ccredible candidates and concrete governing proposals,\u201d according to the party\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n Bucharest mayor and PNL first vice president Ciprian Ciucu also claimed that the merger talks represented the first stage in building the new alliance.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we are in opposition, we will revitalize the specialist committees, to which we will also invite experts from outside the National Liberal Party,\u201d Ciucu wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n The PNL said the committees would bring together party members and independent specialists to develop policy proposals in strategic areas.<\/p>\n Liberal MEP Siegfried Mure\u0219an argued that the alliance should include all parties seeking \u201ca modern Romania, without waste and theft\u201d and compete directly with the far-right AUR in 2028.<\/p>\n