Sigmund Birman, member of the presidium of the Jewish community of Bucharest, was elected to the Roumanian Senate. Josef Bercovici, who represents Temesvar constituency, was also elevated to this post.
Election returns are still coming in and there is a prospect that other Jewish candidates will be elected or appointed to seats in the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate by the victorious Liberal party of Premier Ion G. Duca.
Under Roumanian law the party securing forty percent of the vote is automatically entitled to two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber and in the Senate. After the elections are over, the victorious party fills the legislature with the number of members required to make up its two-thirds majority.
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