League of Albanians of Romania

League of Albanians of Romania Liga Albanezilor din România Lidhja e shqiptarëve të Rumanisë
Founded	30 June 1999
Ideology	Albanian minority interests
National affiliation	National Minorities Parliamentary Group
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 330
Website
alar.ro
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The League of Albanians of Romania (Romanian: Liga Albanezilor din România, ALAR; Albanian: Lidhja e shqiptarëve të Rumanisë, LSR) is an ethnic minority political party in Romania representing the Albanian community.

History

The ALAR was established on 30 June 1999.^[1] In the 2000 general elections it defeated the Cultural Union of Albanians of Romania to win the single seat reserved for the Albanian 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] It has retained its seat in every election since.

Electoral history

Election	Chamber of Deputies			Senate
	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
2000	10,543	0.10	1	–	–	–
2004	5,011	0.05	1
2008	8,792	0.13	1	–	–	–
2012	10,010	0.14	1	–	–	–
2016	4,640	0.07	1	–	–	–

References

1. History ALAR
2. 2000 Parliamentary Elections: Chamber of Deputies Archived 2013-02-27 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

External links

• Official website