Association of Macedonians of Romania | |
Native Name: | Asociația Macedonenilor din România Друштвото на Македонците од Романија |
Foundation: | 2000 |
Headquarters: | Str. Thomas Masaryk nr. 29, Bucharest |
National: | National Minorities Parliamentary Group |
Ideology: | Macedonian minority politics |
Seats1 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
Seats2 Title: | Senate |
Seats3 Title: | European Parliament |
Country: | Romania |
The Association of Macedonians of Romania (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Asociația Macedonenilor din România, AMR; Macedonian: Друштвото на Македонците од Романија|translit=Društvoto na Makedoncite od Romanija, DMR) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Macedonian community.
The party was created in 2000.[1] In the general elections that year the party received only 8,809 votes (0.08%), winning a seat in the Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.[2] [3] The party has won a seat in every election since.
Election | Chamber of Deputies | Senate | ||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Elected MPs | Votes | % | Seats | ||
2000 | 8,809 | 0.08 | 1 | Vasile Ioan Savu | – | – | – | |
2004 | 9,750 | 0.10 | 1 | Liana Dumitrescu | ||||
2008 | 11,814 | 0.17 | 1 | Liana Dumitrescu | – | – | – | |
2012 | 12,212 | 0.16 | 1 | Ionel Stancu | – | – | – |