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ELECTORAL SYSTEM |
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| Chamber: | ||||||
| Camera Deputatilor | ||||||
| Electoral Law: | ||||||
| 15 July 1992 | ||||||
| Constituencies: | ||||||
| 42 multi-member (4 to 29 seats) constituencies; there is one Deputy for every 70,000 inhabitants. | ||||||
| Voting System: | ||||||
| - Proportional representation list system, the number of seats won in each constituency being determined by each party's proportion of the total vote. - Parties or political organisations must obtain at least 5% of the popular vote to gain parliamentary representation. In the case of political alliances, for the second member party 3% of the validly expressed votes throughout the country is added to the 5% threshold: for each other member of the alliance, beginning with the third one, 1% of the validly expressed votes throughout the country is added, up to a maximum electoral threshold of 10%. - Legally constituted organizations of citizens belonging to a national minority, which in the elections have not obtained at least one Deputy have the right to a seat if they have obtained throughout the country at least 5% of the average number of validly expressed votes for the election of one Deputy. - Vacancies arising between general elections are filled by unsuccessful candidates declared substitutes on the corresponding party-list. By-elections can be held in exceptional situations. Voting is not compulsory. |
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| Voter requirements: | ||||||
| - age: 18 years - Romanian citizenship - disqualifications: mentally deficient or alienated persons laid under interdiction and those disenfranchised pursuant to final court decision |
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| Eligibility: | ||||||
| Qualified electors - age: 23 years - Romanian citizenship - residence in Romania |
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| Incompatibilities: | ||||||
| - public officers (except members of the Government) - prefects, sub-prefects, heads of public services and other governmental authorities of territorial administrative units (in constituencies where exercising functions) - judges of the Constitutional Court - advocates of the people - magistrates - members of the armed forces on active duty - policemen - other categories of civil servants established by organic law, who may not join political parties. |
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| Candidacy requirements: | ||||||
| - candidatures proposed on separate list submitted only by legally constituted parties and other political bodies - support by at least 0.5% of the voters from constituency concerned for independent candidates - nominations must be submitted no later than 30 days prior to the polling. |
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