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Romania’s Ruling Coalition Agrees To Merge Local, Parliamentary Elections, Cut MP Numbers

November 15, 2011

Romania’s ruling coalition decided in a meeting Monday parliamentary and local elections will be merged in November 2012 and the number of lawmakers will be lowered to 388, Hunor Kelemen, leader of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, told MEDIAFAX.

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