Bicameralism

The President of the Senate, Anca Dragu, on Wednesday said that the number of MPs must be reduced, based on analysis, and specified that she never supported unicameralism. "We had a referendum in November 2009 in which Romanian citizens expressed their wish that the number of MPs had to be significantly reduced to 300 and that the Parliament be unicameral, instead of bicameral.

Italian citizens vote on constitutional reform today in what some analysts see as the most significant political event of the year – even bigger than Brexit.

With the elections nearing, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has started to spell out more clearly the kind of presidential system he wants for Turkey. He says they are studying examples from the U.S. and France to Argentina, Mexico and Brazil. He nevertheless wants a system that is suited to Turkey?s ?customs and traditions.?

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Valeriu Zgonea has stated, on Thursday, in Oradea, that there are many people insufficiently trained who have entered Parliament and who do not know parliamentary rules, in this context expressing support for reducing the number of MPs.