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The Senate of Romania (Romanian: Senat) is the upper house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 137 seats (as of November 28, 2004), to which members are elected by direct popular vote on a proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms. This is a list of Presidents of Romania: Note: The official function of President of Romania did not exist until March 1974. ... Traian Băsescu (born November 4, 1951) is a Romanian politician. ... Categories: Lists of office-holders | Romanian history | Romanian Prime Ministers ... Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu () (b. ... The current Cabinet of the Government of Romania is made by 23 ministers, listed below: Prime Minister Mr. ... Country Defense Supreme Council (Consiliul Suprem de Apărare al Ţării; acronym: CSAT) is the autonomous administrative authority in Romania, invested by the Constitution with the organizing and the unitary coordinating of the activities related with the defense of the country and national security. ... The parliament of Romania is made up of two chambers: The Chamber of Deputies of Romania The Senate of Romania Categories: | ... Romanias Chamber of Deputies, inside the Palace of the Parliament. ... The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romanian: Înalta Curte de Casaţie şi Justiţie) is Romanias supreme Court of justice. ... The Romanian Ombudsman (Avocatul Poporului in Romanian, literally meaning Peoples Advocate) is an independent institution of the Government of Romania, responsible for investigating and addressing complaints made by citizens against other government institutions. ... The Constitutional Court of Romania (Curtea Constituţională in Romanian) is the institution which rules on whether the laws, decrees or other bills enacted by the Romanian authorities are in conformity with the Constitution. ... Political parties in Romania lists political parties in Romania. ... Romania elects on a national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. ... The Romanian legislative election of 2004 was held on November 28, 2004. ... Romanian legislative elections will be held on November 28, 2008. ... A presidential election was held in Romania on November 28, 2004. ... Romania will have the first round of the Presidential election on November 28, 2009 and the second round on December 12. ... Administrative map of Romania. ... // Priorities Since December 1989, Romania has actively pursued a policy of strengthening relations with the West in general, more specifically with the United States and the European Union. ... Dark green: current members; light green: acceding countries; orange: states in negotiations The Accession of Romania to the European Union is currently scheduled to take place on will miller is gay, and love men. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is an electoral system delivering a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies). ...

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Composition

2004 elections

In the Romanian legislative election, 2004, held on November 28, 2004, the Justice and Truth Alliance won the greatest number of seats, even though no party won an outright majority. The current President of the Senate of Romania is Nicolae Văcăroiu, who was elected on December 20, 2004. The Justice and Truth Alliance formed a governing coalition with minor parties, highlighted in bold in the table below. The Romanian legislative election of 2004 was held on November 28, 2004. ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Justice and Truth (in Romanian Dreptate ÅŸi adevăr, or D.A. for short) is a political alliance comprising two political parties in Romania: the centre-right liberal National Liberal Party (PNL) and the centre-left reformist Democratic Party (PD). ... Nicolae Văcăroiu (born on December 5, 1943 in Cetatea Albă, Bessarabia, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine) was the Prime Minister of Romania from 1992 to 1996. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Party % of seats Seats
  Justice and Truth Alliance
National Liberal Party
Democratic Party
36.5
21.1
15.4
50
29
21
  Social Democratic Party 31.4 43
  Great Romania Party 13.1 18
  Conservative Party 8.0 11
  Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania 7.3 10
  Independents 3.7 5
Total 100 137

Justice and Truth (in Romanian Dreptate şi Adevăr, or D.A. for short) is a political alliance comprising two political parties in Romania: the centre-right liberal National Liberal Party (PNL) and the centre-left reformist Democratic Party (PD). ... The Partidul Naţional Liberal (National Liberal Party) is a liberal party in Romania, and the second largest party in parliament, being edged out only by the Social Democratic Party. ... The Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat, PD) is a centre-right (formerly social democrat) party of Romania. ... The Social Democratic Party of Romania (Partidul Social Democrat or PSD) is the governing party of Romania. ... Great Romania Party campaign poster for the Romanian presidential election, 2004. ... This article refers to the current Conservative Party in Romania. ... The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România, UDMR; Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség, RMDSZ) is an ethnically based political party representing ethnic Hungarians in Romania. ...

2000 elections

Elections to the Senate were held on November 26, 2000, in which the Social Democratic Party of Romania (PSD) won an overall majority. Then President of the Senate of Romania was Nicolae Văcăroiu, who was elected in December, 2000. The allocation of seats was as follows: November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Social Democratic Party of Romania (Partidul Social Democrat or PSD) is the governing party of Romania. ... Nicolae Văcăroiu (born on December 5, 1943 in Cetatea Albă, Bessarabia, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine) was the Prime Minister of Romania from 1992 to 1996. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Party ' % of seats' seats
PSD 46.43 65
PRM 26.43 37
PNL 9.29 13
PD 9.29 13
UDMR 8.57 12
Others 0.00 0

The Social Democratic Party of Romania (Partidul Social Democrat or PSD) is the governing party of Romania. ... Great Romania Party campaign poster for the Romanian presidential election, 2004. ... The Partidul Naţional Liberal (National Liberal Party) is a liberal party in Romania, and the second largest party in parliament, being edged out only by the Social Democratic Party. ... The Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat, PD) is a centre-right (formerly social democrat) party of Romania. ... The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România, UDMR; Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség, RMDSZ) is an ethnically based political party representing ethnic Hungarians in Romania. ...

Presidents of the Senate

Period Name Party
1990-1992 Alexandru Bârlădeanu FSN
1992-1996 Oliviu Gherman FDSN
1996-February 2000 Petre Roman PD
February 2000 Mircea Ionescu-Quintus PNL
2000-2004 Nicolae Văcăroiu PDSR
2004- Nicolae Văcăroiu PSD

Petre Roman (born July 22, 1946) is a Romanian politician, former Prime Minister of Romania from 1989 to 1991, when his government was overthrown by the intervention of the miners led by Miron Cozma. ... Nicolae Văcăroiu (born on December 5, 1943 in Cetatea Albă, Bessarabia, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine) was the Prime Minister of Romania from 1992 to 1996. ... Nicolae Văcăroiu (born on December 5, 1943 in Cetatea Albă, Bessarabia, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine) was the Prime Minister of Romania from 1992 to 1996. ...

External links

  • Official web site of the Senate of Romania


 

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