Association of Macedonians of Romania

The Association of Macedonians of Romania (Romanian: Asociația Macedonenilor din România, AMR; Macedonian: Друштвото на Македонците од Романија, romanized: Društvoto na Makedoncite od Romanija, DMR) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Macedonian community.

Association of Macedonians of Romania Asociația Macedonenilor din România Друштвото на Македонците од Романија
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Str. Thomas Masaryk nr. 29, Bucharest
Ideology	Macedonian minority politics
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 329
Senate	0 / 136
European Parliament	0 / 32
Website
asociatia-macedonenilor.ro
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History

The party was created in 2000.^[1] In the general elections that year the party received only 8,809 votes (0.08%), winning a seat in the Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.^[2][3] The party has won a seat in every election since.

Electoral history

Election	Chamber of Deputies				Senate
	Votes	%	Seats	Elected MPs	Votes	%	Seats
2000	8,809	0.08	1	Vasile Ioan Savu	–	–	–
2004	9,750	0.10	1	Liana Dumitrescu
2008	11,814	0.17	1	Liana Dumitrescu	–	–	–
2012	12,212	0.16	1	Ionel Stancu	–	–	–