Democratic Turkish Union of Romania
Democratic Turkish Union of Romania | |
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Leader | Osman Fedbi |
Founded | 1 February 1990[1] |
Headquarters | 44 Crisana str., 900573 Constanta |
Ideology | Turkish minority politics |
Chamber of Deputies |
1 / 329 |
Senate |
0 / 136 |
European Parliament |
0 / 32 |
Website | |
www.rdtb.ro | |
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The Democratic Turkish Union of Romania (Romanian: Uniunea Democrată Turcă din România, UDTR; Turkish: Romanya Demokrat Türk Birliği, RDTB) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Turkish community.
History
The party was created in 1990 as a split from the Turkish Muslim Democratic Union of Romania (which subsequently became an organisation solely for Romanian Tatars), and was initially named the Ethnic Turkish Minority Union of Romania (Uniunea Minoritară Etnică Turcă din România, UMETR).[2] In the 1992 general elections the party received only 2,572 votes (0.02%),[3] but won a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law that allows for political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold. In December 1993 it adopted its current name,[2] and has won a seat in every election since.
Electoral history
Election | Chamber of Deputies | Senate | ||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |
1992 | 2,572 | 0.02 | 1 | |||
1996 | 4,326 | 0.04 | 1 | – | – | – |
2000 | 6,675 | 0.05 | 1 | – | – | – |
2004 | 7,715 | 0.08 | 1 | |||
2008 | 9,481 | 0.13 | 1 | – | – | – |
2012 | 7,324 | 0.10 | 1 | – | – | – |
References
- ↑ RDTU History
- 1 2 History Democratic Turkish Union of Romania
- ↑ 1992 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. University of Essex