See also Roma Party

Roma Party

Roma Party is a political party in Serbia. It is an ethnic minority party of Roma people.Party president is Šajn Srđan. The party took part in the Serbian parliamentary election, 2007 as an independent list. It won one seat....

 in Serbia

The Party of the Roma , formerly known as Social Democratic Party of the Roma (Partida Romilor Social-Democrată), is a political party in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 representing the Romani minority. Its leader is Nicolae Păun, and it currently has one reserved seat

Romanian ethnic minorities parties

The Romanian Constitution , under the contitions imposed by the Electoral Law, reserves a seat in the Chamber of Deputies for the party and cultural association of each ethnic minority in Romania...

 in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies.

Parliamentary representation

Founded in 1990, after the Romanian Revolution

Romanian Revolution of 1989

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a series of riots and clashes in December 1989. These were part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several Warsaw Pact countries...

, the Party of the Roma is the official political association of the Romani minority and consequently has one reserved seat in the Chamber of Deputies, regardless of its electoral performance. The party has contested every election since the 1992 suffrage, but has never passed the 5% threshold required for it to gain extra seats. At the 2000

Romanian legislative election, 2000

Legislative elections where be held in Romania on November 26, 2000, together with the Presidential election. The Greater Romania Party made big gains, as did the PDSR, which became the ruling party. The formerly governing Romanian Democratic Convention lost all its seats and was shortly...

 and 2004 national elections

Romanian legislative election, 2004

The Romanian legislative election of 2004 was held on 28 November 2004. 137 seats in the Senate of Romania and 314 seats in the Chamber of Deputies were up for election.The 2004 legislative election was held simultaneously with the presidential election...

, the Party of the Roma signed a protocol of reciprocal electoral support with the Social Democratic Party

Social Democratic Party (Romania)

The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...

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The reserved seat has been held by Gheorghe Răducanu in 1992-1996, by Mădălin Voicu

Madalin Voicu

Mădălin Ştefan Voicu is a Romanian musician and politician of Romani ethnicity. Voicu is a member of the Social Democratic Party , and has been a parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies since 1996...

 in 1996-2000, and by Nicolae Păun

Nicolae Paun

Nicolae Păun is a Romani-Romanian politician. He is the president of the Party of the Roma, and has held the one reserved seat for Romani people in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies since 2000...

in 2000-2004 and since 2004. Party representatives have been elected at local level.