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The Romanian Ecologist Party (Romanian: Partidul Ecologist Român) was founded by Petre Metanie a teacher in 1978 as a political organisation opposed to Nicolae Ceaușescu and the Romanian Communist Party’s policy of indiscriminate economic growth without regard for ecological consequences. In the seventies a large number of children were born malformed due to high levels of chemical pollution in the air water and food.