...Romania is a parliamentary democracy, and has a bicameral parliament comprised of the Senate (the upper house, with 137 seats) and the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house, with 334 seats), which are elected for four-year terms. The head of state is the president, currently Traian Basescu, who serves a five-year term. As of December 2008, Romania has a coalition government comprising the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party (DLP)--the party of the prime minister, Emil Boc--and the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP). The president's five-year term ends in 2009 and the next parliamentary election is due in late 2012. Former communists are defeated in the 2004 election, amid scandals. In 2000-04 the SDP, then known as the Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PSDR), formed a minority government supported by the HUDR, which oversaw Romania's entrance into NATO. The SDP enjoyed high levels of public support, but this began to seep away in 2004, as the public became increasingly disenchanted...
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