Association of Italians of Romania

Association of Italians of Romania - RO.AS.IT. Asociația Italienilor din România Associazione degli Italiani di Romania
President	Ioana Grosaru
General Secretary	Andi Gabriel Grosaru
Founded	1993
Registered	1996
Newspaper	Piazza Romana Siamo di Nuovo Insieme
Ideology	Italian minority politics
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
European affiliation	European Democratic Party
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 330
Senate	0 / 136
European Parliament	0 / 33
Website
www.roasit.ro/
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The Association of Italians of Romania – RO.AS.IT. (Romanian: Asociația Italienilor din România – RO.AS.IT.; Italian: Associazione degli Italiani di Romania – RO.AS.IT.) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Italian community of the country. The main objective of the organisation is to preserve the traditions and customs of the Italian community and promote the Italian language, culture, and history. It is supported by the Department of Interethnic Relations and the Italian Embassy in Bucharest. In 2014, it joined the European Democratic Party (EDP).

History

The party was established in 1993 in Suceava, Suceava County, Bukovina.^[1] It contested the 1996 general elections, but was beaten by the Italian Community of Romania (CIR), which retained the seat reserved for the Italian community in the Chamber of Deputies under the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from the electoral threshold only applied as long as they received 10% of the vote required for a single seat in the Chamber of Deputies.^[2][3]

The party contested the 2000 elections as part of the Italian Community of Romania,^[4] but ran separately in the 2004 elections and beat the CIR by 987 votes to win the Italian seat, with Mircea Grosaru becoming the party's MP. It has retained it in every election since. Following Grosaru's death in 2014, his son Andi-Gabriel became the party's MP.

Electoral history

Election	Chamber of Deputies			Senate
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
1996	9,833	0.08	0	–	–	–
2000	Part of the Italian Community of Romania			–	–	–
2004	6,168	0.06	1
2008	9,567	0.14	1	–	–	–
2012	7,943	0.11	1	–	–	–
2016	3,486	0.05	1	–	–	–
2020	4,170	0.07	1	–	–	–

See also

• Italian language in Romania

References

1. Association Archived 2015-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Association of Italians of Romania
2. 1996 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine University of Essex
3. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1585 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
4. Case of Grosaru v. Romania, no. 78039/01, ECtHR (Third Section), Judgment (Merits and Just Satisfaction) of 02.03.2010, Reports of Judgments and Decisions 2010 Eurocases

External links

• Official website