Political intrigue has become a national sport, in the Romanian Parliament, which is proven by the way the structure of the parliamentary groups in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies looks, in November 2024, compared to December 2024, when the Legislature that is about to conclude its mandate in the middle of next month.
On December 6, 2024, for the elections for the Chamber of Deputies, the Social Democratic Party obtained a score of 29.32% of the votes, which turned into 47 mandates in the upper chamber of the Romanian Parliament. In November 2024, the PSD has, in the Senate, a group of 48 parliamentarians, mathematically one more. Conversely, if in 2020 the Liberal National Party obtained, at the vote, 25.58% and 421 senatorial mandates, today, the parliamentary group of liberals in the Senate has only 31 elected members, ten less.
USR is not doing better either. In 2020, the USR-PLUS Alliance received 15.86% of the votes for the Senate and 25 senatorial mandates, and at this moment the USR parliamentary group in the Senate has 20 MPs, five less.
However, things are completely different with regard to GOLD. George Simion’s formation entered the Senate, in 2020, with a score of 9.17% of the votes and with 14 senatorial mandates, and today, AUR has, in the Senate, a parliamentary group made up of 16 people, with two more many. Only the UDMR, which took, in the last legislative elections, a score of 5.89%, kept its number of MPs in the Upper Chamber, 9 elected.
From USR to PSD. From PNL to AUR
PSD attracted several MPs from other parties to the Senate group. Among them is Gheorghiță Mândruță, elected in 2020 on the USR-PLUS lists.
The National Liberal Party lost, as we have shown above, several senators, among whom we can list Viorel Riceard Badea, Liviu Brătescu or Adrian Oros, who chose to remain unaffiliated senators. On the other hand, they also transferred from the PNL to other parties. For example, Vasilića Potecă is, at the moment, AUR senator. And Liviu Dumitru Voiculescu is now a PSD senator.
And from USR, transfers were made to PSD. This is the case, already mentioned, of Gheorghiță Mândruță, but also of Claudiu Marinel Mureșan. The progressives were also left without senators Ion Dragoș Popescu, Andrei Postică and Cosmin Marian Poteraș, who currently work as unaffiliated parliamentarians.
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AUR won the former PSD-ist Călin Gheorghe Matieș and the liberal Vasilića Potecă. Instead, he lost Rodica Boancă.
Migration, much more acute in the House
The differences between what was chosen in December 2020 and the political situation in 2024 are even more pronounced in the Chamber of Deputies. PSD was elected with five less. PNL lost, from December 2020, until November 2024, 15 parliamentarians. Elected with 25.18%, the liberal party entered the Chamber of Deputies with 93 elected members, and today it has only 77.
In December 2020, USR-PLUS received 15.37% of the votes and 55 deputy mandates. Now USR still has 38 elected members in the Chamber of Deputies, 17 less. And AUR lost 9 deputies, from 33, elected in December 2020, to 24, in November 2024. Even UDMR lost one deputy, from the 21 parliamentarians elected in the December 2020 election.
Political transfers are, however, much more complex. For example, PSD attracted to its group the deputy Daniel Sorin Gheba, elected on USR lists, transferred to AUR and relocated to PSD. He also won Cristina Camelia Rizea, also elected on the USR lists, but also Maria Stoian, elected on the PNL lists. Another USR-ist who switched to PSD is deputy Beniamin Todosiu.
The PNL lost a massive group of MPs, led by Ludovic Orban, who became unaffiliated MPs. Among them, only Violeta Alexandru decided to move, strategically, to USR. Instead, the liberals attracted Cornel Folescu, from the PSD, but they also recruited others, such as Oana MARciana Ozmen from the USR or George Adrian Paladi, from the PSD.
USR lost a whole group of parliamentarians who left the party with Dacian Cioloș, forming REPER and who act as unaffiliated parliamentarians. And AUR took a deputy from PNL – Dumitru Flucuș. AUR also recruited other parliamentarians, including from USR, PNL or PSD, but some of them returned to the “mother”. Others came to “knives” with George Simion and resigned from the party.
The 2020 poll, organized during the pandemic, saw a turnout of 33.3% at the polls
The last parliamentary elections, which took place on December 6, 2020, had a poor turnout.
For the Chamber of Deputies, four years ago, 6,052,774 voters went to the polls, representing 33.3% of those registered in the permanent electoral lists. Also, in the 2020 senate elections, 5,908,364 people came to vote, representing 33.3% of the permanent electoral lists.
Officially, in the 2020 legislative election, 18,964,642 Romanian citizens with the right to vote were registered in the permanent electoral lists. The elections took place in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a few months after the lifting of the state of emergency and the declaration of the state of alert at the national level.
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Source: jurnalul.ro
