Senate of Romania

Senate

Senat
Senate ; Senat
9th Legislature
Type
Type	Upper house of the Parliament of Romania
History
Founded	1864
Leadership
President	Ilie Bolojan, PNL ; since 23 December 2024
Structure
Seats	134 (+2 vacant)
Political groups	Government (acting) (32) National Liberal Party (22); Democratic Alliance of Hungarians (10); Opposition (102) Social Democratic Party (38); Alliance for the Union of Romanians (28); Save Romania Union (19); S.O.S. Romania (9); Independents (8);
Committees	15 Committee for legal affairs, appointments, discipline, immunities and validations; Committee on Budget, finance, banking and capital market; Commission for economy, industry and services; Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development; Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on public administration, the territory and environmental protection; Commission for defense, public order and national security; Commission for work, family and social protection; Committee for Education, Science, Youth and Sports; Committee on Public Health; Committee for culture, art and media information in the table; Commission on Human Rights, religious and minority; Committee on Equal Opportunities; Commission for privatization and management of state assets; Committee on research abuses, corruption and petitions;
Elections
Voting system	1992–2008; 2016–present: Closed list, D'Hondt method; 2008–2016: nominal vote, mixed member proportional representation;
Last election	1 December 2024
Next election	2028
Meeting place
	Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
Website
	www.senat.ro

The Senate (Romanian: Senat) is the upper house in the bicameral Parliament of Romania. It has 136 seats (before the 2016 parliamentary election the total number of elected representatives was 176), to which members are elected by direct popular vote using party-list proportional representation in 43 electoral districts (the 41 counties, the city of Bucharest plus 1 constituency for the Romanians living abroad), to serve four-year terms.