Who did we elect in the uninominal system? The 2008 parliamentary profile compared to 2004

Who did we elect in the uninominal system? The 2008 parliamentary profile compared to 2004

Bucharest, March 19, 2009 ■ Starting with the new legislature, the Institute for Public Policy (IPP) is adapting its monitoring strategy so that it can bring to the public attention relevant aspects from the activity of the Romanian Parliament in the context of changes brought about by the uninominal elections of November 2008. From the beginning of the parliamentary mandate, IPP urged the President of the Chamber of Deputies to support the proceedings initiated by the Institute in 2005 to publish comprehensive information about the deputies' activities, as well as the expenditure per deputy incurred during the exercise of their specific activities (IPP requested the ex officio publication of all monthly expenditure per deputy on the websites of the two Chambers).

We begin the series of monitoring reports on the current Parliament with a brief presentation of some statistical data regarding its current composition. The current Parliament is composed of 334 deputies and 137 senators. The monitoring was mainly based on information collected from the official websites of the two Chambers during January 13 and March 13, as well as on the answers to some requests for clarifications submitted by the Institute in January this year, under the Law No. 544/2001 on free access to information of public interest.