UN BILANȚ AL ALEGERILOR PARLAMENTARE DIN TIMPUL DOMNIEI LUI CAROL I
A SURVEY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS DURING THE REIGN OF CHARLES I

Summary/Abstract: The parliamentary elections between 1866 and 1914 were almost every time won by the government which organized them, some times with percentage of over 90%. The most important feature of the electoral regime during the reign of Charles I was the fact that the elections were not the fundamental factor which decided what political party had to come to power, but the King himself. Once the King had decided which party had to rule the country, that party took over the whole administrative machinery and imposed its own members as winners of the electoral contest. During the 48 years of the reign of Charles I, only in 1866, 1870 and 1876 a government lost the elections. The elections were important because they brought the legitimacy that every party needed for the rule of the country. Otherwise, the real master of the political life in Romania remained the King, who dominated with great authority the political parties and their leaders, who competed for his favours.

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