Popular Front of Moldova Frontul Popular din Moldova | |
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| Abbreviation | FPM |
| Leader | Ion Hadârcă |
| Founded | 30 May 1989 |
| Dissolved | Early 1993 |
| Preceded by | Democratic Movement of Moldova |
| Succeeded by | Christian Democratic Popular Front |
| Headquarters | Chișinău, Moldavian SSR |
| Ideology | Romanian–Moldovan unionism Romanian nationalism Christian democracy Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | Romanian national colours: Blue Yellow Red |
| 12th Supreme Soviet | 101 / 380 |
| Party flag | |
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The Popular Front of Moldova (PFM; Romanian: Frontul Popular din Moldova, FPM) was a political movement in the Moldavian SSR, one of the 15 union republics of the former Soviet Union, and in the newly independent Republic of Moldova. Formally, the Front existed from 1989 to 1992. It was the successor to the Democratic Movement of Moldova (Mișcarea Democratică din Moldova; 1988–89), and was succeeded by the Christian Democratic Popular Front (Frontul Popular Creștin Democrat; 1992–99) and ultimately by the Christian-Democratic People's Party (Partidul Popular Creștin Democrat; since 1999).
The Popular Front was well organized nationally, with its strongest support in the capital and in areas of the country most heavily populated by Moldavians. Once the organization was in power, however, internal disputes led to a sharp fall in popular support, and it fragmented into several competing factions by early 1993.[1]
- ^ The 1990 Elections, Fedor, Helen, ed. Moldova: A Country Study. GPO for the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1995.