Reformă electorală în România

Contact Data

Address: Blvd. Mareşal Al. Averescu, nr. 17, Pavilion F, etaj 3, sector 1, cod 011454, Bucureşti, România
Phone no.: 021 222.82.45
E-mail Address: apd@apd.ro
Fax: 021 222.82.54

Contacted authorities

Camera Deputatilor, Senat

Development period

1995 - 2008

Project name

Reformă electorală în România

English description

The Pro Democracy Association (APD) considered the reform of the election system to be of utmost importance in strengthening democracy in Romania and in bringing the voters closer to the elected officials by increasing the accountability of the latter to their own electorate. A unified electoral system, based on uninominal voting (not voting lists of party candidates), thus became the only solution.
In 1995, the Pro Democracy Association initiated the idea of an electoral reform and drew media interest on this issue. Starting with the beginning of the 2000s, APD conducted mass information campaigns and campaigns to collect signatures for a draft law that proposed a reform in the electoral law and the introduction of a uninominal voting system. In 2007, after extensive negotiations, the political parties reached an agreement on several modifications to the system, which were proposed by APD. In 2007 President Basescu brought into discussion the majority voting system in two rounds and in November 2007 called the people for a referendum. The referendum was rejected and APD’s project was resent to the Parliament at the end of 2007. The political parties took the opportunity to modify the first version of the APD system. On March 4, 2008 the new Electoral Law (No. 35/2008) was passed, a law that describes a voting method based on the system proposed by APD.