General elections were held in

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in December 1928. Immediately after acceding to power, the

National Peasants' Party The National Peasants' Party (also known as the National Peasant Party or National Farmers' Party; ro, Partidul Național Țărănesc, or ''Partidul Național-Țărănist'', PNȚ) was an agrarian political party in the Kingdom of Romania. It w ...

(NPP) prepared the next elections. The lists were filed before the local Courts before 26 November, while voting took place for the

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on 12 December, the Universal College of the

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on 15 December, the local/county councils (Senate) on 17 December, and the Chamber of Industries and Commerce (Senate) on 19 December. The elections were strongly contested by the National Liberal Party (NLP). The liberal papers ran articles like "Organised gangs led by those that are supposed to 'organise' the elections, attack people both in towns as in the country, without any fear of authority, on the contrary...". On the other hand, the NPP press claimed that "Such elections have not yet been organised in our country. For the first time ever we can see with our own eyes truly ''free elections''. Not a single quarrel, not a single pressure, not a single involvement of the law enforcing officers." The truth was somewhere in the middle. The Liberals were right in that the NPP misused the national budget to sponsor their own electoral campaign, as well as they abusively closed many local and county Councils (for instance, the decision of closing 23 local councils in a single county, Vlașca, was invalidated at the appeal, yet the elections have not been rerun). On the other hand, the NPP also had their own piece of truth, in that liberty and peace was granted more than ever before in election times (the reputed historian

Nicolae Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

wrote in his journal, later to be published under the title of ''Memorii'', for the date of 12 December a very short but relevant note: "Lifeless elections"; a similar note under the date of 15: "Dead calm elections for the Senate."), although there have been quite a few scandals, in particular during the campaign.

Results

Chamber of Deputies

Of the 348 Chamber seats won by the National Peasants' Party list, the National Peasants' Party took 326, the

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nine, the German Party eight, the

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two, while three were given to Jewish candidates.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', pp1610-1611 The Social Democratic Party allocated its nine seats to:

Ioan Flueraș Ioan (or Ion) Flueraș (or Fluieraș) (November 2, 1882 – June 7, 1953) was a Romanian social democratic politician and a victim of the communist regime. Biography Early activities Born in Chereluș (Kerülős), Arad County, in the Crișan ...

Iosif Jumanca Iosif Jumanca (December 23, 1893 – June 26, 1950) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian politician. Born in Fólya, Temes County (now Folea, Timiș County) in 1903 he became a founding member of the Romanian branch of the Hungarian Social Dem ...

, Romulus Dan, Eftimie Gherman,

Lothar Rădăceanu Lothar or Lotar Rădăceanu (born ''Lothar Würzer'' or ''Würzel''; May 19, 1899 – August 24, 1955) was a Romanian journalist and linguist, best known as a socialist and communist politician. Biography Early life and politics Born to an e ...

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, Alexandru Lucian, I. Rusnac and

Iacob Pistiner Iacob Pistiner (german: Jakob Pistiner; 1882 – 24 August 1930) was a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was born in Chernivtsi, Bukovina, 1882, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, in a Jewish family. As a result of the general election of May ...

.Constantin-Titel Petrescu (1945) ''Socialismul în România 1835-6 septembrie 1940''

Senate

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References

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