 In 2008, there were 137 senatorial seats and 334 seats in the Chamber of Deputies; of the 334 deputy seats, 18 were held by the ethnic minorities representatives which would not meet the five-percent electoral threshold required for other parties and organizations.Romania has a multiparty system, which makes a majority government virtually impossible; small parliamentary parties have merged with larger ones.Currently, there are six main parliamentary parties (excluding the 17 ethnic-minority parties which have one representative each)