ROMANIAN POLITICS IN 19TH CENTURY: THE ATTITUDE OF THE LIBERALS AND THE CONSERVATIVES TOWARDS THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM
Across this paper, I will examine the way in which the significant aspects of the Romanian two-party system were analysed by the political actors, both liberals and conservatives, during the reign of Charles I (1866-1914). Politicians from both political currents, that dominated the Romanian political life in that time, debated a series of topics concerning the evolution and the operation of the Romanian two-party system: the liberal political regime, the government alternation between the liberals and the conservatives, the role of the constitutional monarchy in the consolidation of the Romanian political regime etc. The conservative and liberal political leaders together with Charles I (who was first the prince and then, after 1881, the king of Romania) supported the operation and the consolidation of the government alternation, according to the British model, between the two political forces that invariably dominated the Romanian political regime: the National Liberal Party NLP (founded in 1875) and the Conservative Party (created in 1880).