Cultural Union of Ruthenians of Romania Uniunea Culturală a Rutenilor din România Културне Товариство Русинів Романії | |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Newspaper | Jurnal Rutean |
| Ideology | Rusynminority politics |
| National affiliation | National Minorities Parliamentary Group |
| Chamber of Deputies | 1 / 329 |
| Senate | 0 / 136 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 32 |
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TheCultural Union of Ruthenians of Romania (Romanian:Uniunea Culturală a Rutenilor din România, UCRR;Rusyn:Културне Товариство Русинів Романії,romanized: Kulturne Tovarystvo Rusyniv Romaniji, KTRR) is anethnic minority political party inRomania representing theRusyn community.
The AIR was established in 2000.[1] It contested the2000 general elections, and despite receiving just 6,942 votes (0.06%), it won a seat in theChamber of Deputies under the electoral law allowing political parties representing ethnic minority groups to be exempt from theelectoral 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.
| Election | Chamber of Deputies | Senate | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |
| 2000 | 6,942 | 0.06 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 2004 | 2,871 | 0.03 | 1 | |||
| 2008 | 4,514 | 0.07 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 2012 | 5,265 | 0.07 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 2016 | 2,824 | 0.04 | 1 | – | – | – |
| 2020 | 3,779 | 0.06 | 1 | – | – | – |
