Popular Front of Moldova

Popular Front of Moldova
Frontul Popular din Moldova
AbbreviationFPM
LeaderIon Hadârcă
Founded30 May 1989 (1989-05-30)
DissolvedEarly 1993 (1993)
Preceded byDemocratic Movement of Moldova
Succeeded byChristian Democratic Popular Front
HeadquartersChișinău, Moldavian SSR
IdeologyRomanian–Moldovan unionism
Romanian nationalism
Christian democracy
Liberalism
Political positionCentre-right
ColoursRomanian national colours:
  Blue
  Yellow
  Red
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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]

  1. ^ The 1990 Elections, Fedor, Helen, ed. Moldova: A Country Study. GPO for the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1995.