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What is PMC?

The Party of Cognitive Modesty (Partidul Modestiei Cognitive, PMC) — culturally known as the "Habar N-am Party" (roughly: the "I-Have-No-Idea Party") — is a Romanian centre-right, liberal-conservative political project, currently in its cultural-doctrinary phase, with registration targeted for 2027.

It addresses Romanians everywhere who are willing to declare, on their own responsibility, that they don't know everything — a contradiction in terms, assumed as such.

The founding doctrine

PMC's founding principle is cognitive modesty — not false humility, but an active epistemic stance: "I don't know — yet. Let me think on it further." Where we don't know, we ask experts. Where we err, we record it publicly and dated. Where new evidence appears, we change our position — dated and motivated.

This is the opposite of the standard political posture of manufactured certainty. PMC's distinctive article is the public refusal to turn ignorance into public certainty.

What makes it different

• The Kaizen Ledger (Răbojul Kaizen) — a public, dated record of the party's own corrections, mistakes, and position changes. No Western European party has an equivalent.
• The Bestiary (Bestiarul) — public, dated self-criticism. The party records its own errors before others point them out.
• The Founders' Commitment — three permanent clauses of self-limitation: the founders will never run for elected office, never hold politically-appointed executive posts, and will not remain in executive party leadership after a transitional phase.
• The Caragialian register — the party communicates in the satirical-but-serious literary style of I.L. Caragiale, Romania's great comedic playwright. The humour is the wrapping; the institutional mechanisms are serious.

Where it stands

PMC situates itself firmly in the European centre-right liberal-conservative tradition — the same family as the VVD (Netherlands), CDU (Germany), Les Républicains (France), PLR/FDP (Switzerland), and Moderaterna (Sweden). It is pro-EU and pro-NATO, on grounds of pragmatic geopolitics rather than ideology, while favouring subsidiarity over rigid federalism.

It is built on the same intellectual foundations as the modern EU: subsidiarity (Maastricht 1992, from Catholic social doctrine), personalism (Mounier-Maritain → Schuman, Adenauer, De Gasperi), and the social market economy.

For Romanians everywhere

PMC explicitly addresses the Romanian diaspora — including the second generation who may read English more comfortably than Romanian. If you'd like to learn more, the full content is in Romanian at habarnamparty.ro, or write to us at contact@habarnamparty.ro.