The Democracy at Home Party () or Democracy at Home Political Party (; PPDA) is a

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in the

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History

The Democracy at Home Party was established on 31 July 2011, but it was officially registered on 2 September. It is the legal successor of the "Democracy at Home" Youth Movement (). Its president is Vasile Costiuc and it is a party with a

ideology. It is also a "syndicalist" party, meaning that it supports the

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. The party participated in the

2019 Moldovan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 24 February 2019 in order to elect the 101 members of the Parliament of Moldova. The Constitution holds that elections are to be held no later than four years and three months from the date of inaug ...

, obtaining the 11th place with a total of 4,463 (0.32%) votes. This represented an increase of 0.17% from the

2014 Moldovan parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 30 November 2014. The result was described as "more a loss than a victory" of the incumbent pro-European coalition, with center-right parties divided by sharp tensions. The pro-Russian Party of Soc ...

, but this was not enough to exceed the minimum of 6% of the votes to enter the

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. Its

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during this election was . The PPDA was part of the

Mișcarea Politică Unirea Mișcarea Politică Unirea (MPU; ) is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political party of the Republic of Moldova. It was founded on 15 January 2020, after the initiative of five parties to join forces to fight for the unification of Moldova and ...

(MPU), a political party established on 15 January 2020 to unite

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with

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together with four other Moldovan political parties. At the time of its establishment, Costiuc declared that this was the first step towards "the constitution of a large movement, with national support" and that its aim was "to stop the expansionism of the

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". The MPU participated in the

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through its candidate

Dorin Chirtoacă Dorin Chirtoacă (born 9 August 1978) is a Moldovan politician who served as Mayor of Chișinău from 2007 to 2018. He has been leader of Liberal Party (Moldova), Liberal Party (PL) since 2018. Biography His mother is Valentina, sister of Ghe ...

. However, on 30 April 2021, the PPDA left the coalition composing the MPU as Costiuc considered the trajectories and objectives of both were not the same.

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