Chamber of Deputies (Romania)

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The Chamber of Deputies (Romanian: Camera Deputaților) is the lower house in Romania’s bicameral parliament. It has 412 seats to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote in single-member electoral districts using mixed member proportional representation. 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).

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election date leader

2012-07-03

last election date

2012-12-09

leader

Valeriu Zgonea

legislative period name

7th Legislature

location

Bucharest, Palace of the Parliament

political party in legislature

Social Democratic Party (Romania), Democratic Liberal Party (Romania), Romanian ethnic minorities parties, Independent (politician), National Liberal Party (Romania), Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, Conservative Party (Romania), People's Party – Dan Diaconescu

type

Lower house