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Alternative Network for Reason and Equality of Opportunity Rețeaua Alternativă pentru Rațiune și Egalitate de Șanse
Abbreviation	RAREȘ
Secretary-General	Deryn Hall
Founder	Deryn Hall
Founded	October 27, 2024 (2024-10-27)
Ideology	Progressivism Eco-socialism Anti-fascism Developmentalism European federalism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	România Renaște (Intention to join)
Regional affiliation	Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance (Intention to join)
European affiliation	Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (Intention to join)
European Parliament group	The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL (Intention to join)
Colors	Aquamarine
Election symbol
Party flag
Politics of Romania Political parties Elections Politics of the European Union Political parties Elections

The Alternative Network for Reason and Equality of Opportunity (Template:Lang-ro, RAREȘ) is a left-wing political party in Romania.

The party was founded as the Democratic Progress Party (Template:Lang-ro, PPD) before adopting its current name. It claims to be founded on three main principles:

1. A fully nationalised socialist economy that works to fully meet the wants and needs of every citizen and respects the planet, acting to stop and reverse climate change,
2. Full and unconditional support for human rights, and complete support for all forms of social justice and “wokeness”, both in internal and foreign policy,
3. A self-sufficient European Federal Republic which pursues an independent foreign policy in order to protect democracy and human rights against Russian and American imperialism.

While often called communist by its opponents, the party opposes communism as it has existed in Romania, instead opting for a post-Marxist approach to socialism. It also aims to ban the far-right parties AUR and SOS, which it often compares to the Iron Guard, the fascist organisation that ruled Romania during the Second World War.

The party is somewhat supportive of Mircea Geoană’s potential candidacy for the presidency of Romania in 2024, and has published a list of “like-minded” political parties in other European states:

State	Party		Abbr.
Austria		Der Wandel	Wandel
Belgium		Team Fouad Ahidar	TFA
Bulgaria		Bulgarian Left	BL
Croatia		We can!	Možemo!
Cyprus		Jasmine Movement	KG/YH
Czechia		Future [cs]	Budoucnost
Denmark		Independent Greens	Q
Estonia		Estonian United Left Party	Vasakpoolsed
Finland		Left Alliance	Vas
France		Génération.s	G.s
Germany		MERA25	MERA25
Greece		MeRA25	MeRA25
Hungary		Spark Movement	Szikra
Ireland		Rabharta	Rabartha
Italy		MERA25 Italia	MERA25
Latvia		The Progressives	PRO
Lithuania		KArtu	KArtu
Luxembourg		The Left	Lénk
Malta		AD+PD	ADPD
Netherlands		BIJ1	BIJ1
Poland		Left Together	Razem
Portugal		LIVRE	L
Romania		Democracy and Solidarity Party	Demos
Slovakia		Socialisti.sk	S.sk
Slovenia		The Left	Levica
Spain		Sumar	SMR
Sweden		MERA25 Sverige	MERA25

If and when the party reaches its goal of creating a European republic, it has expressed interest in expanding its scope to include the entire union, and wishes to transform itself into a cross-spectrum populist republican party on the model of the Rally for the Republic in France, Fianna Fáil in Ireland, the Justicialist Party in Argentina, the African National Congress in South Africa, and the Republican People's Party in Türkiye.

The party has ruled out collaboration with any of the parties currently represented in the Parliament of Romania with the exception of the Party of the Roma Pro Europe (PRPE), which currently holds one deputy and no senators, citing the other parties' social conservatism, economic liberalism, euroscepticism, corruption, support for Israel, or mix thereof.

In addition to its official symbols and flag, the party also uses the flag of allied-occupied Germany to represent its opposition to fascism.

State	Party		Abbr.
Albania		Lëvizja Bashkë	LB
Andorra		Social Democracy and Progress	SDP
Armenia		Citizen's Decision	K՛O
Azerbaijan		Democratic Reforms Party	DİP
Belarus		Belarusian Left Party "A Just World"	BPL
Bosnia		Bosnian Party	BOSS
Georgia		For the People	FP
Iceland		Icelandic Socialist Party	SFÍ
Kosovo		Vetëvendosje	LVV
Liechtenstein		Free List	FL
Moldova		Ecologist Green Party	PVE
Monaco		New Ideas for Monaco	NIM
Montenegro		Turnaround	PP
Macedonia		Socialist Party of Macedonia	SPM
Norway		Feminist Initiative	FI
Russia		A Just World	SM
San Marino		Libera San Marino	Libera
Serbia		Party of the Radical Left	PRL
Switzerland		Alternative Left	AL
Türkiye		Social Freedom Party	TÖP
Ukraine		Social Movement	SotsRukh
United Kingdom		Transform Politics	Transform

State	Political groups						MEPs
	S&D	EPP	G/EFA	Renew	The Left	NI
Austria			2 (Grüne)				2
Belgium	2 (Vooruit) 2 (PS)	2 (CD&V) 1 (CSP)	1 (Groen) 1 (Ecolo)	3 (MR) 1 (Open VLD) 1 (LE)	2 (PTB)		16
Bulgaria	2 (BSP)	1 (GERB–SDS: SDS) 1 (PP-DB: DSB)		3 (DPS) 2 (PP-DB: PP)			9
Croatia	4 (SDP)		1 (Možemo!)				5
Cyprus						1 (Fidias)	1
Czechia		2 (Spolu: TOP 09) 2 (STAN)	1 (Piráti)				5
Denmark	3 (A)		3 (F)	1 (B) 1 (M)	1 (Ø)		9
Estonia	2 (SDE)			1 (RE)			3
Finland	2 (SDP)		2 (Vihr)		3 (Vas)		7
France	13 (PS-PP)		5 (LE)		9 (LFI)		27
Germany	14 (SPD)	23 (CDU) 6 (CSU) 1 (ÖDP)	12 (B90/Grüne) 3 (Volt)	5 (FDP) 3 (FW)	3 (Linke) 1 (Tierschutz)	6 (BSW) 1 (PdF)	78
Greece	3 (PASOK-KINAL)	7 (ND)				2 (KKE) 1 (PE)	13
Hungary	2 (DK-MSZP-P)	7 (TISZA)					9
Ireland	1 (Lab)			1 (McNamara)	2 (SF) 1 (Flanagan)		5
Italy	21 (PD)		4 (AVS: EV)		2 (AVS: SI)		27
Latvia			1 (P)				1
Lithuania	2 (LSDP)	3 (TS–LKD)	1 (DSVL)	1 (LP) 1 (LS)			8
Luxembourg	1 (LSAP)	2 (CSV)	1 (Gréng)	1 (DP)			5
Malta	3 (PL)	3 (PN)					6
Netherlands	4 (GL–PvdA: PvdA)		4 (GL–PvdA: GL) 2 (Volt)	3 (D66)	1 (PvdD)		14
Poland	3 (Lewica)	21 (KO) 2 (TD: PSL)		1 (TD: PL2050)			27
Portugal	8 (PS)	5 (AD: PSD)		2 (IL)	1 (BE) 1 (CDU)		17
Romania		2 (UDMR)	1 (Ștefănuță)				3
Slovakia		1 (KDH)		6 (PS)			7
Slovenia	1 (SD)		1 (Vesna)	2 (Svoboda)			4
Spain	20 (PSOE)		1 (AR: ERC) 1 (AR: BNG) 1 (Sumar: Comuns) 1 (Sumar: Més)	1 (CEUS)	2 (Podemos) 1 (AR: EH Bildu) 1 (Sumar: SMR)	1 (Junts)	30
Sweden	5 (S)		3 (MP)	2 (C)	2 (V)		12
Total	S&D	EPP	G/EFA	Renew	The Left	NI	MEPs
	118	92	53	42	33	12	350

Party of Regions and Farmers
Abbreviation	PRF
Ideology	Populism: Economic nationalism Agrarianism Communitarianism Direct democracy Localism
Political position	Centre
European Parliament group	EPP (4 MEPs) S&D (2 MEPs) ECR (1 MEP) Renew (1 MEP) NI (1 MEP)
Colors	Grass green
European Parliament	9 / 720
Politics of the European Union Political parties Elections

The Party of Regions and Farmers (PRF) is a European political party representing agrarian, regionalist, and centrist-populist state- and region- level political parties.

Unlike most other Europarties, PRF members are free to join any parliamentary group (with the exception of the neo-nazi ESN group). This is meant as a temporary measure, until the party has enough seats to form its own parliamentary group.

It currently has eight state-level member parties and two region-level member parties, all of which are represented in their respective state legislatures, and a total of nine members of the European Parliament.

State	Party		Abbr.	Seats	EP Group
Catalonia ( Spain)		Together for Catalonia	Junts	7 / 350		NI
Croatia		Croatian Peasant Party	HSS	1 / 151		Renew
Cyprus		Democratic Party	DIKO	9 / 56		S&D
Czechia		Mayors and Independents	STAN	33 / 200		EPP
Latvia		Latvian Farmers' Union	LZS	11 / 100		Renew
Lithuania		Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union	LVŽS	19 / 141		ECR
Netherlands		Farmer–Citizen Movement	BBB	7 / 150		EPP
Poland		Szymon Hołownia's Poland 2050	PL2050	32 / 460		Renew
Romania		Social Liberal Humanist Party	PUSL	4 / 330		S&D
Sicily ( Italy)		South calls North	ScN	1 / 400		NI