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The Parliament of Romania (Romanian: Parlamentul României) is the national bicameral legislature of Romania, consisting of the Chamber of Deputies (Camera Deputaților) and the Senate (Senat). It meets at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest , the capital.
The Senate (Romanian: Senat) is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania.It has 136 seats (before the 2016 parliamentary election the total number of elected representatives was 176), [1] to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation [1] in 43 electoral districts (the 41 counties, the city of Bucharest plus 1 constituency for the ...
The Chamber of Deputies (Romanian: Camera Deputaților) is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament.It has 330 total seats to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation [5] to serve four-year terms.
Romania's political framework is a semi-presidential representative republic where the Prime Minister is the head of government while the President, according to the Constitution, has at least in theory a more symbolic role, is responsible for the foreign policy, signs certain decrees, approves laws promulgated by the parliament, and nominates the head of government (i.e. Prime Minister).
Romania has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. On 25 November 2007, for the first time, Romanians elected their representatives to the European Parliament .
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu ordered the building of a colossal structure View from the palace. For its construction, the Uranus-Izvor neighborhood was demolished. [13] The construction of the Palace of the Parliament was the most extreme expression of the systematization program imposed on Romania by Nicolae Ceaușescu.
The Congress, or The General Assembly of the delegates of the party's members (Romanian: Congresul; Adunarea Generală a delegaţilor membrilor partidului) is the supreme authority in the party. It leads the party and takes decisions at national level.
Parliamentary elections were held in Romania on 1 December 2024. [2] [3] No party won a majority in the election, which saw the incumbent National Coalition for Romania, led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Liberal Party (PNL), lose their majority in both chambers of parliament alongside significant gains by far-right parties such as the Alliance for the Union of Romanians ...