Romanian Deputies Maintain 5% Threshold For Parliament Elections

Lawmakers rejected an amendment proposed by the Hungarian minority party UDMR and backed by conservatives, which stipulated an alternative threshold of four deputy chairs and two senator chairs.

 

The electoral threshold will be 5% for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate or, alternatively, for the organizations who do not reach this threshold on a national level, the gaining of six mandates for the Chamber of Deputies and three for the Senate.

 

MP Marton Arpad had proposed the amendment saying it would take the votes of some 85% of the Hungarian community to obtain six deputy and three senator seats.

 

Social democrats were against the proposed amendment saying that lowering the threshold would ease parliament access for too many parties and that would render the formation of parliament groups very difficult.