Presidents of The Chamber of Deputies
The Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies consists of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, four vice-presidents, four secretaries, and four quaestors. The President of the Standing Bureau also serves as the President of the Chamber of Deputies. The President is elected, by secret ballot, for the duration of the legislative period. All the other members are elected at the beginning of each parliamentary session.
The political stance of presidents of the lower house after the development of a modern party system is given by:
| PNL = National Liberal Party | PC = Conservative Party |
| PNR = Romanian National Party | PP = People's Party |
| PCD = Conservative-Democratic Party | PNŢ = National Peasants' Party |
| PND = Democratic Nationalist Party | PNC = National Christian Party |
| FRN = National Renaissance Front (from 1940 PN; Party of the Nation) |
FP = Ploughmen's Front |
| PMR = Romanian Workers' Party (from 1965 PCR; Romanian Communist Party) |
FSN = National Salvation Front |
| PDSR = Party of Social Democracy in Romania (from 2001 PSD; Social Democratic Party) |
PNŢCD = Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party |
| PSDR = Romanian Social Democratic Party | PD-L = Democratic Liberal Party (until 2008 PD; Democratic Party) |
| Mil. = Military | Ind. = Independent |
Interim (acting) officeholders are denoted by italics. The Rule of the Chamber of Deputies states that at the first standing of the house, the meeting is headed by the eldest senator and helped by the youngest senator. Those bear the title of Interim President of the Senate, and, as their term is very short (one or two days) are not listed. The interim officeholders listed have hold the office in different circumstances and for a longer time.
| Elections | # | Name | Portrait | Born-Died | Took office | Left office | Party |
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| Assembly of Deputies 1990 - 1992 |
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| 1990 | 52 | Marţian Dan | 1935 - 2002 | 19 June 1990 | 16 October 1992 | FSN | |
| Chamber of Deputies since 1992 |
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| 1992 | 53 | Adrian Năstase | 1950 - | 28 October 1992 | 22 November 1996 | FDSN/PDSR | |
| 1996 | 54 | Ion Diaconescu | 1917 - 2011 | 27 November 1996 | 30 November 2000 | PNŢCD | |
| 2000 | 55 | Valer Dorneanu | 1944 - | December 15, 2000 | November 30, 2004 | PDSR/PSD | |
| 2004 | (53) | Adrian Năstase | 1950 - | December 19, 2004 | March 16, 2006 | PSD | |
| 56 | Bogdan Olteanu | 1971 - | 20 March 2006 | 13 December 2008 | PNL | ||
| 2008 | 57 | Roberta Anastase | 1976 - | 19 December 2008 | 3 July 2012 | PD-L | |
| 58 | Valeriu Zgonea | 1967 - | 3 July 2012 | PSD | |||
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