Alegeri parlamentare 2016: Proporţionalitate, finanţare, scrutin de listǎ, voturi şi mandate parlamentare

• Main Author: Florin GRECU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Institutul European Iasi 2021-03-01
• Series: Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice
• Subjects: list ballot; parliamentary seats; redistributing votes; elections; legitimacy; active citizens
• Online Access: http://revistapolis.ro/documente/revista//2017/Numarul_1(15)2017/articole/9_Florin%20GRECU.pdf

This article analyzes the parliamentary elections of 2016 in Romania, organized on the basis of the party’s election ordered list and the principles of proportionality and representativeness according to the electoral laws adopted by Parliament in 2015. The hypothesis of the article is the following: how real is the proportionality of votes of citizens against the fixed number of parliamentary seats. In this regard, the article examines what locked vote list mean, that does not enable the voter to make changes and which is the mechanism of transformation of votes in parliamentary terms. Presenting legislative framework and arguing why it is so important the magnitude constituency, the article aims to show that the more lesser is circumscription, the more votes are unused. In other terms, parties that do not fulfill 5% electoral quotient established by law, lose votes gathered, and they are nationally redistributed proportionately by the Central Electoral Bureau to the organizations that have exceeded the election threshold. What article proves is that the redistribution of votes acts as a bonus for parties that passed the election threshold to form a parliamentary majority and government support.