2007 European Parliament election in Romania

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Romania elected its members of the European Parliament for the first time on 25 November 2007;[1][2] the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons.[3] A referendum on a new voting system for national parliamentary elections was held on the same day.

Pre-election situation

Romania joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, and was initially represented in the European Parliament by 35 observers as follows:

Party Group Seats
Social Democratic Party PES 12
National Liberal Party ALDE 6
Democratic Party EPP-ED 5
Greater Romania Party ITS/NI 5
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania EPP-ED 3
Conservative Party ALDE 2
Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania EPP-ED 1
Independent ITS/NI 1

Opinion polls

Polling Firm Date Source PD PSD PNL PNG PRM UDMR PLD PC Undecided
CURS 1 July 2007 [1] 43% 10% 12% 8% 5% 5% <5% <5% N/A
IMAS 1 August 2007 [2] 31.7% 12.8% 9.4% 9.3% 3.4% 2.7% 2.2% N/A 26.3%
CURS 5 September 2007 [3] 35% 24% 13% 8% 5% 5% <5% <5% N/A
CCSB 21-29/9/2007 [4] 37.2% 21.5% 12.6% 8.4% 5.6% 3.9% <5% 4.1% N/A
Insomar 10-17/10/2007 [5] 42% 19% 13% 5% 5% 5% 3% 3% N/A
IMAS 10-22/10/2007 [6] 37% 18% 16% 8% 6% 6% 5% N/A N/A
CIVIS 24 October 2007 [7] 27.1% 20.7% 20.6% 8.8% 4.8% 4.4% 5.7% 1.9% N/A
ATLE 6-11/11/2007 [8] 33.5% 25.0% 9.5% 5.5% 5.9% 4.9% 4.7% 4.5% N/A
Insomar 8-13/11/2007 [9][permanent dead link] 40% 19% 13% 5% 6% 5% 6% 4% N/A
BCS 10-15/11/2007 [10] 35% 23% 14% 5.6% 4% 4% 4.7% 3.3% N/A
ATLE 13-18/11/2007 [11] Archived 1 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine 32.1% 26.0% 9.5% 4.9% 6.3% 4.6% 5.2% 5.1% N/A
CSOP 17-19/11/2007 [12] 38.2% 19.5% 12.9% 7.3% 4.8% 4.6% 6.2% 2.2% N/A

Results

35 MEPs were appointed by Romania to serve as observers in the Parliament before the country joined in 2007. Since then up until the election, the observers served as full MEPs.

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