Popular Front of Moldova

Popular Front of Moldova Frontul Popular din Moldova
Abbreviation	FPM
Leader	Ion Hadârcă
Founded	30 May 1989 (1989-05-30)
Dissolved	Early 1993 (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
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The Popular Front of Moldova (Romanian: Frontul Popular din Moldova) 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]