Chamber of Deputies of Romania
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Chamber of Deputies Camera Deputaților |
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| 7th Legislature | |
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Lower house of the Parliament of Romania
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| History | |
| Founded | 1862 |
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| Structure | |
| Seats | 329 |
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Political groups
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Government (174) Parties Supporting the Government (38)
Opposition (117) |
| Elections | |
| 1992–2008: Closed list, D'Hondt method 2008–2016: nominal vote, Mixed member proportional representation since 2016: Closed list, D'Hondt method |
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Last election
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11 December 2016 |
| Meeting place | |
| Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest | |
| Website | |
| cdep.ro | |
Government (174)
Parties Supporting the Government (38)
Opposition (117)
The Chamber of Deputies (Romanian: Camera Deputaților) is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 412 seats (as of 9 December 2012, after the next legislative elections 330), to which deputies were elected by direct popular vote in single-member electoral districts using mixed member proportional representation (at the next elections using closed list party-list proportional representation) to serve four-year terms. Additionally, the organisation of each national minority is entitled to a seat in the Chamber (under the limitation that a national minority is to be represented by one organisation only).
The (Romanian: Biroul Permanent) is the body elected by the deputies that rules the Chamber. Its President is the President of the Chamber, and he/she is elected for a whole legislature (usually four years). All the other members are elected at the beginning of each parliamentary session.
There is one President, and four of each: Vicepresidents, Quaestors and Secretaries. The current composition is listed below.
Standing committees and current leadership are listed below.
In Romania's 2004 legislative election, held on 28 November, no party won an outright majority. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) won the largest number of seats but is currently in opposition because the Justice and Truth Alliance, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, the Romanian Humanist Party(which later became the Conservative Party), and the National Minorities formed a governing coalition, giving it 177 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (47.9% of the total). The Conservative Party withdrew in December 2006, meaning that the government lost the majority in the Chamber of Deputies. In April 2007 the liberal prime-minister, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, dismissed the Democratic Party ministers from the government and formed a minority government with the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, marking the end of the Justice and Truth Alliance.
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