Grand National Assembly (Romania)

Member of the Grand National Assembly in September 1959 at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany

The Grand National Assembly ( Romanian : Marea Adunare Națională ) was the legislative power of Romania from April 13, 1948 to the fall of Ceaușescu on December 22, 1989. It was the successor to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate , which had existed from 1919 to 1940 . The Grand National Assembly was elected every four years, but there was never a free election . It had its seat in the Palace of the Chamber of Deputies , today the Patriarch's Palace .

After the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, the National Assembly was replaced by a bicameral system consisting of a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate .

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• books.google.de , Lothar Schultz: The constitutional development of the Socialist Republic of Romania since the Second World War , in: Yearbook of Public Law of the Present, New Series , 15 (1966), p. 407ff.