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The Party of Free Change (Partidul Liber Schimbist, PLS) was a satirical political party in Romania, founded by ro and with ro as its first president. Its name, message and symbols were overt references and homages to Ion Luca Caragiale, the classical Romanian humorist; building on an inside joke, its agenda praised opportunism and even encouraged members to leave the party. However, the PLS was also criticized for its alleged links with the ruling National Salvation Front (FSN), and for being one of the many groups which split the vote in the general election of 1990 and local ones of 1992. It won a seat in Chamber, taken by Cazimir, and several positions on local councils. Changes in the electoral legislation signaled the PLS' decline—a rapid one, after Cazimir defected to the Social Democratic Party (PDSR; now PSD) in 1992. No seat was won by the party in the general elections of that year, and, although technically undissolvable according to its statutes, it eventually disappeared before the 1996 election. Theater director Mircea Cornișteanu was its second and last president.

The PLS began existence shortly after the December 1989 revolution, which toppled the communist regime and restored multiparty democracy. It was founded by editorial cartoonist Octavian Andronic, with a manifesto published on February 6, 1990 in Libertatea daily; literary critic Ștefan Cazimir adhered "by phone" on February 7. The name was adapted from Ion Luca Caragiale's comedy O scrisoare pierdută (1884), which Andronic had just watched on Romanian Television, in the Liviu Ciulei adaptation. had had a political involvement with the Romanian Communist Party and, earlier, the Union of Communist Youth, to which he adhered c. 1949. In December, he had been caught up in the revolutionary events, first as an unwilling participant in the communist counter manifestation, then as a supporter of the street movement in Bucharest. During January, Cazimir pondered entering politics as an independent, promising his constituents to "read out from Caragiale as often as possible". Due to its literary pedigree leading back to the 1880s, the PLS called itself an "historic party". Reviving Cațavencu's rhetoric, perceived enemies of the party where addressed as reprobabili ("detestable people"), and allies as venerabili or stimabili ("venerable" or "esteemed people").

Soon after its official registration on March 1, He remained critical of the FSN and its leader Ion Iliescu, establishing contacts with the Golaniad protest movement (named after golani, "hoodlums", the word used by Iliescu to describe his opponents). As he noted in an April 1990 interview with academic George Pruteanu, he considered himself a "veteran hoodlum" (golan veteran), and suggested that the anti FSN movement was "too numerous not to be taken into account" (Cazimir's emphasis); according to Pruteanu's marginal comments, part of this statement may have been sarcastic. which went to Cazimir. In his early speeches at Cervantes, Cazimir had joked that they only ran in elections "because I was tired of things going smooth." Also at România Literară, columnist Alex. Ștefănescu, a member of the opposition National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD), saw it as a "sociological oddity" that "a parody of a party was taken seriously by the voters". Journalist George Baltac believes that the PLS "deliberately" helped the FSN to fragment the PNȚCD's voting weight with "an explosion of minuscule parties." He notes that Cazimir, as a "left wing intellectual", had a personal relationship with Iliescu. In a 2006 piece, writer Cătălin Mihuleac described the PLS doctrines as an "idiotic jest" (hlizeala idioată), arguing that Caragiale would have never approved of it; he described Cazimir and his group as a toxic influence on Romanian politics. In the end, it elected several councilors throughout the country, and only one at Bucharest. Cazimir defected to Iliescu's Social Democratic Party (PSD) later that year, and in the elections of September the party's vote share fell to 0.1%, resulting in it losing its single seat in Chamber. Writing in 1999, Ștefănescu suggested that Cazimir had failed to explain his own defection: "at some point he dropped his joking with the PLS and transferred toward [the PSD], a party that has led Romania into a position which is not at all joyful." A rump PLS had continued to exist for part of that interval. Cornișteanu, who succeeded Cazimir as ad interim president, argues that he had "betrayed" the party statues, and notes that he was consequently listed as an "abandoned member". The group was ultimately disbanded in 1996 when new rules required that any party should have at least 10,000 members, or, according to Cornișteanu, when it could no longer support itself financially. Despite publishing a history of the party in 1998, when he was referred to as its "ex president", Cazimir viewed the PLS as undissolvable. According to him, it still technically existed by 2010, because its own statutory clauses encouraged all members to join other parties.

ElectionChamberSenatePositionAftermathVotes%SeatsVotes%Seats199047,0170.3446,2470.3313thSupport to [[National Salvation Front (Romania)Support to [[National Salvation Front (Romania) (1991–1992)199212,3600.118,7200.0738thExtra parliamentary support to [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)