(1) The President of Romania shall designate a candidate to the office of Prime Minister, as a result of his consultation with the party which has obtained absolute majority in Parliament, or -unless such majority exists – with the parties represented in Parliament. BUCHAREST, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Romania’s leftist Social Democrat Party won the most seats in both houses of parliament after a national election and will have a combined 221 deputies and senators, final results unveiled by the Central Electoral Bureau showed on Thursday. Since the representatives of ethnic minorities other than the Hungarian minority won 17 seats (there were 16 seats at first but their number was hiked following a challenge), the future Parliament will have 465 MPs.
Romania's centre-left Social Democratic Party won 45% of the seats in both houses of parliament in Sunday's election, and with the expected participation of the liberal centre-right Alliance of Liberals and Democrats Party in the coalition government, will hold an outright majority of 250 seats in the 465-seat assembly.