Romania elected its
members of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Commu ...
for the first time on 25 November 2007; the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons.
Bulgaria: Romania Postpones European Parliament Elections
/ref> A referendum on a new voting system for national parliamentary elections was held on the same day.
Pre-election situation
Romania joined the European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...
on 1 January 2007, and was initially represented in the European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
by 35 observers as follows:
Opinion polls
Results
35 MEPs were appointed by Romania to serve as observers in the Parliament before the country joined in 2007. Since then up until the election, the observers served as full MEPs.
References
See also
* Elections in Romania
Romania elects on a national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people (after a change from four-year terms after the 2004 election). The Romanian Parliament ( ro, ...
* Elections in the European Union
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are considered the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
Until ...
* 2007 European Parliament election in Bulgaria
Bulgaria elected its members of the European Parliament in a by-election on 20 May 2007. It was the country's first European election, having joined the Union on 1 January of that year. The country still had 18 MEPs, no change from before the e ...
* Romania (European Parliament constituency)
Romania is a European Parliament constituency for elections in the European Union covering the member state of Romania. It is currently represented by thirty-three Members of the European Parliament.
Current Members of the European Parliament ...
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2007 in Romania
2007 elections in Romania
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania)
November 2007 events in Europe