Nicolae Păun (born 9 November 1964) is a Romani-

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n politician. He is the president of the

Party of the Roma The Party of the Roma (, PRPE; ), known until 2008 as Social Democratic Party of the Roma (, PRS-D), is a political party in Romania representing the Romani minority. Its leader is Nicolae Păun, and it currently has one reserved seat in the ...

, and has held the one reserved seat for Romani people in the

Romanian Chamber of Deputies The Chamber of Deputies () is the lower house in Romania's Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Romania, parliament. It has 312 regular seats to which Chamber of Deputies, deputies are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportiona ...

since 2000. Since 2000, he has also been the president of the Committee for Human Rights, Religious Affairs and National Minorities in the Chamber of Deputies. Nicolae Păun is one of only two ethnic Romani members of parliament in Romania, the other one being Mădălin Voicu of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

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Nicolae Păun's page at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Romanian Romani people Romani politicians Romanian politicians of ethnic minority parties 1964 births Living people {{Romani-stub