Senate of Romania
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The Senate Senatul
5th Legislature
Type
Type	Upper house
Leadership
President	Ilie Sârbu, Social Democratic Party since 28 October 2008
Structure
Members	137
Political groups	Social Democratic Party: 42 National Liberal Party: 25 Democratic Party: 21 Greater Romania Party: 16 Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania: 10 Conservative Party: 11 Independents: 11
committees	15 - The Committee for legal affairs, appointments, discipline, immunities and validations; - Committee on Budget, finance, banking and capital market; - The commission for economy, industry and services; Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development; - The Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on public administration, the territory and environmental protection; - The Commission for defense, public order and national security; - Commission for work, family and social protection; Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sports; - Committee on Public Health; Committee for culture, art and media information in the table; - Commission on Human Rights, religious and minority; The Committee on Equal Opportunities; - Commission for privatization and management of state assets; - Committee on research abuses, corruption and petitions;
Election
voting system	Closed list, D'Hondt method
Meeting place
Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
Web site
www.senat.ro

The Senate of Romania (Romanian: Senat) is the upper house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 137 seats (as of November 28, 2004), to which members are elected by direct popular vote, using proportional representation in 42 electoral districts (the 41 counties plus the city of Bucharest), to serve four-year terms.

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Senate was housed in "Palatul Senatului", located in Revolution Square. That U-shaped structure was built from 1938 to 1941 under engineer Emil Prager's coordination, following the plans of architect Emil Nădejde. It housed the Council of Ministers and from 1958 to 1989 it was the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party. During the Revolution, Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena fled by helicopter from the roof of the building. In 2005 Senators moved into the Palace of the Parliament, joining their colleagues from the Chamber of Deputies. "Palatul Senatului" now houses offices of the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform.

Former Senate headquarters, now headquarters of the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform

Composition

2004 elections

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In the Romanian legislative election, 2004, held on November 28, 2004, the Justice and Truth Alliance won the greatest number of seats, even though no party won an outright majority. The current President of the Senate of Romania is Nicolae Văcăroiu, who was elected on December 20, 2004. Following his ad interim presidency of Romania, he delegated his attributions to the vicepresident Doru Ioan Tărăcilă.

Until April 2007, the Justice and Truth Alliance governed in coalition with other minor parties. In April 2007, after the break-up of the Justice and Truth Alliance, the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Union of Hungarians formed a minority government coalition (highlighted in bold in the table below).

2000 elections

Elections to the Senate were held on November 26, 2000, in which the Social Democratic Party of Romania (PSD) won an overall majority. Then President of the Senate of Romania was Nicolae Văcăroiu, who was elected in December, 2000. The allocation of seats was as follows:

Party	' % of seats'	seats
PSD	46.43	65
PRM	26.43	37
PNL	9.29	13
PD	9.29	13
UDMR	8.57	12
Others	0.00	0

Presidents of the Senate

Main article: President of the Senate of Romania

The Standing Bureau of the Senate consists of the President of the Senate, four vice-presidents, four secretaries, and four quaestors. The President of the Standing Bureau also serves as the President of the Senate. The President is elected, by secret ballot, for the duration of the legislative period.¹

References

1. ^ Pagina oficiala a Senatului României

External links

• Official web site of the Senate of Romania

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