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    Agency: Ethnic minorities to be represented in Romanian parliament

    Rompres news agency
    2 Dec 04


    Bucharest, 2 December: Twenty-eight organizations and associations of
    ethnic minorities registered in the parliamentary electoral race in
    Romania, with the polls held on 28 November, further to the acceptance
    by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) of the logos and lists and
    supporting signatures presented by them, daily Nine O'Clock says on
    Thursday 2 December .

    Since the beginning of the registration of the electoral process, BEC
    has rejected the requests of several minorities' organizations to
    participate in the parliamentary election. Among them there are the
    Szeklers' Union of Romania, the Association of the Slav Macedonians of
    Romania, the Ethnic Association of the Russians in Romania. They could
    not participate in the polls, as the minorities that they allegedly
    represent are not mentioned in the latest census. The BEC members also
    turned down the registration of the Cultural Union of the Albanians in
    Romania, which submitted a list with only 36 of the 72 signatures
    required from supporters. The lists of sympathisers of the Hungarian
    Civic Union (UCM) were referred to the Prosecutor's Office to verify
    if the signatories are members of the Hungarian ethnic group, as BEC
    noticed the existence of several Romanian names on the lists. Further
    to verifications, the decision was made not to accept UCM to take part
    in the election. In exchange, two other organizations in a similar
    situation, the Association of the Italians in Romania and the Cultural
    Union Association of the Poles, do participate, the daily adds.

    >From a political point of view, the national minorities are
    represented in parliament, are part of the ruling process and are
    consulted by the government. Article 5 (2) of the Romanian
    constitution stipulates: "The organizations of citizens of ethnic
    minorities, which do not meet in the election the required number of
    votes to be represented in parliament, have, each of them, the right
    to one deputy seat, as the electoral law says," daily Nine O'Clock
    reports.

    In Romania, there are several parties and organizations of the
    national minorities, and the ones below are represented in parliament:
    Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania, Democrat Forum of the Germans
    in Romania, Rroma Social Democratic Party, Union of Serbs in Romania,
    Union of Armenians in Romania, Democratic Union of Turkish-Moslem
    Tartars in Romania, Democratic Turkish Union in Romania, Union of
    Ukrainians in Romania, Cultural Union of Ruthenians in Romania, Union
    of the Poles in Romania-Dom Polski, Democratic Union of the Slovaks
    and Czechs in Romania, Bulgarian Union in Banat/Romania, Lippovan
    Russians Community in Romania, Federation of the Jewish Communities in
    Romania, Union of the Croatians in Romania, Association of the
    Macedonians in Romania, League of the Albanians in Romania, Greek
    Union of Romania, Italian Community of Romania.
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