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ROMANIA
Population
Total population in Romania is 19,644,350 by 1st January 2017. 2.15% of the population is foreign born (Eurostat). The median age of Romanians is 39.09 which is slightly less than the European average of 40.36 (UN Data).
Political Parties
The most recent parliamentary election was held in December 2016. The prominent parties, vote shares in this election and their orientations are as follows (Parlgov):
|
Party Name |
Vote Share |
Ideological Orientation |
|
Social Democratic Party |
45.48 |
Social democracy |
|
National Liberal Party |
20.04 |
Liberal |
|
Save Romania Union |
8.87 |
no family |
|
Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania |
6.19 |
Conservative |
|
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats |
5.62 |
Liberal |
|
People's Movement Party |
5.35 |
Christian democracy |
|
United Romania Party |
2.79 |
Right-wing |
|
Greater Romania Party |
1.04 |
Right-wing |
Electoral System
The system used in Romania is Close List PR in which parties make lists of candidates to be elected, and seats get distributed to each party in proportion to the number of votes the party receives (Wikipedia). The voter turnout in 2016 election was 37.79% (idea.int)
Quality of Democracy
Romania is a parliamentary democracy. Quality of democracy score by Freedom House is 2 out of 7 where 1 is most free and 7 is least free. According to Transparency International Romania is ranked 59th least corrupted among 180 countries with a score of 48 out of 100.
Gender Equality
21% of the parliamentarians are women currently while there is no legislated quota for women candidates. (idea.int)