As many as 2,965 candidates are running in the Romanian parliamentary elections due on Nov. 30, with 2,070 of whom seeking to get one of 315 seats in the lower Deputies' Chamber and 895 candidates running for 137 seats in the upper Senate house, the Central Electoral Bureau announced on Friday (Oct 30).
Most hopefuls are on the lists of the Alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Conservative Party (PSD+PC) and the National Liberal Party (PNL), who have each put forward 452 candidates, of whom 315 for the Deputies' Chamber and 137 for the Senate.
The Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L) has fielded 451 candidates, of whom 314 for deputies and 137 for senators; the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania has 449 candidates (313 for deputies and 136 for senators); and the Greater Romania Party (PRM) has 441 candidates (309 for deputies and 132 for senators).
The New Generation Christian Democratic Party (PNG-CD) has fielded the highest number of contestants among the non-parliamentary parties. The party has put forward contenders in all 452 uninominal colleges. The Green Ecologist Party Alliance has 119 candidates on its lists, 70 of whom stand for election in the Deputies' Chamber and 49 in the Senate.
The People's and Social Protection Party has 96 parliamentary hopefuls – 70 for the Deputies' Chamber and 26 for the Senate; the Romanian Socialist Party has two candidates – one for deputy and one for senator; and the National Christian Democratic Party has fielded a candidate for the Deputies' Chamber, the same as the Party of European Romania.
As many as 31 candidates will run as independents, with 28 of them seeking a deputy's seat and three a senator's. The national minorities' organisations have 18 candidates for deputies.
These are the first single-vote elections in Romania's history.
These are the first single-vote elections in Romania's history.
Besides the 137 senator's seats and 315 deputies' seats, there will be 18 deputy's seats at the most for the national minorities represented in Parliament, if they get at least 10 percent of the electoral coefficient on a national level, in line with the votes cast, the Central Electoral Bureau announced.
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