PARLY is available only in the official language.

Terms Mode: Search for topics and terms that interest you. The preview shows how frequent the term is used in debates overall. 

Speaker Mode: Find out what your member of parliament is saying about the topics you care about. 

Parties Mode: Find out which party is talking about what topics and terms more often.

Gender Mode: Find out what terms and topics are talked about by female as opposed to male MPs and vice-versa.

By clicking on the data points, you can click through the speeches in which the searched term was mentioned, and dig into the whole parliamentary sessions.

Session & Transcript Collection
Data was extracted on 6 January 2026 and covers parliamentary sessions from February 1996 to December 2025. Plenary session days (including joint sessions with the Senate) were identified via parliamentary calendars, and stenographic transcripts were systematically retrieved from the parliamentary debate archive.

Speech Extraction
Individual speeches were parsed from transcript pages, extracting text, date, session, and speaker information. Cleaning procedures and plausibility checks were applied throughout the extraction process.

Speaker Matching & Party Affiliation
Speakers were matched to Members of Parliament using profile URLs. Party affiliation and legislative period were reconstructed using parliamentary information pages.

Gender Identification
Gender was inferred from Romanian honorifics used in the transcripts (“Domnul” for male speakers and “Doamna” for female speakers). In 0.13% of statements the speaker’s gender could not be identified.

Documentation & Reproducibility: Full documentation is provided in the reproducible R/Quarto workflow.

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Version 2.0 - February 2026

Contact: michael.jennewein@fes.de