Dignity and Truth Platform Party

Dignity and Truth Platform Party Partidul Platforma Demnitate şi Adevăr
Abbreviation	PPDA
Chairman	Andrei Năstase
Founded	December 2015
Preceded by	Force of the People Party
Headquarters	Chişinău, Moldova
Ideology	Populism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre to Right-wing
Parliament	0 / 101
District Presidents	0 / 32
Website
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The Dignity and Truth Platform Party (Romanian: Partidul Platforma Demnitate şi Adevăr, PPDA) is a centre-right political party in Moldova, led by Andrei Năstase, former prosecutor. It established in December 2015 as a result of the long-term anti-government demonstrations. The party calls for a complete change of the current political class and reset of the political system. The most shows relatively high support for this party: third place with 12.5%.

History

On February 24 2015, a initiative group, consists of 14 persons(journalists, analitics, social activists) announced the creation of the civic movement called Dignity and Truth Platform. The purpose of this movement was to supervise the government activity. Since April Platform had organized many numerous meetings where people expressed their dissatisfaction with the government. After almost one year of the protests leaders of Platform had made decision to create a political party to be an alternative to the actual parties considered controlled by oligarchs.

Ideology

The party leadership has expressed opposition to the "oligarchic mafia government" and to Vladimir Plahotniuc, considering him the head of this system. They support early elections to form authentic pro-EU reformist government.

Criticism and controversies

Opponents of the movement accuse them of being a tool in the inter-oligarch struggle.

External links

• Official website (Romanian)
• Feb 24 manifesto (Romanian)