Romanian PM Vies For Govt’s Uninominal Voting System

The legal committees within the Parliament completed talks on the amendment of the law regulating the election of Parliament members, but the meeting was put off to next week because of a lack of quorum. In the next meeting, the report on the normative act will be compiled, even though the deadline for the report was January 31.

The Constitutional Court admitted, in December 2007, president Traian Basescu’s challenge of the government’s draft uninominal vote law, dubbing some of its provisions unconstitutional. The court’s decision targets the articles regarding the additional lists and the one that states early elections can also be organized in case of administrative-territorial reorganization.

Thus, the Parliament has 45 days to reexamine the mentioned provisions and to put them in accord with the Court’s decision.

Romanian president Traian Basescu sent letters to all parliament party leaders, asking them to support the majority uninominal voting system in two rounds of elections.